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How can we harness the cognitive science of mental imagery to reduce intrusive memories after trauma?
🎙️ Emily Holmes, Sweden
🗓️ Monday 2 March 2026 at 16.00 CET

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Our position paper on the #FIN
The neural basis of our mind’s eye: clinical and neuroimaging evidence converge on a distributed brain network organized around the #Fusiform_Imagery_Node (FIN) in the left fusiform gyrus.
#Neuroscience #Neuroimaging #CognitiveNeurology #MentalImagery #Aphantasia

Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains? People with aphantasia are offering a window into consciousness.

"And aphantasia might be more common in people in scientific and technical professions than in people with careers in the arts."

You may have to get a link to the article, but is is public

#Aphantasia #Neurodiversity #MentalImagery
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My first first-author paper, from the first half of my Master’s (almost 3 years ago, wow) is out! Happy to finally share! 👁️

Stay tuned, there's more coming soon!

#pupillometry #mentalimagery #cognitivepsychology #aphantasia

Another study by @cvanbuck.bsky.social. Results similar to our preprint: pupil size is a reliable overall measure of bright/ dark processing, but this effect does not (or only very weakly) correlate with individual differences in #mentalimagery / #aphantasia
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #psychology

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Their brains don’t light up like real vision. Their brain signals are flipped 🔄. This could explain why their imagery never reaches conscious awareness. But their brains are still building mental blueprints 🧠✨.

#Aphantasia #NeuroReels #ScienceExplained #MentalImagery #Reels #ViralVideo

Pupil size reflects moment-to-moment fluctuations in mental imagery, but not (or hardly) individual differences in imagery Previous research has shown that the eyes' pupils are larger when imaging dark as compared to bright objects or scenes. Based on this, it has been claimed that pupil size is a sensitive marker of ment...

🚨 #Preprint alert 🚨 A multilab study led by Claire Vanbuckave investigated whether the strength of pupil responses to imagined brightness/ darkness reflect differences in vividness of mental imagery. We found … 👇 1/3 🧵 #psychology #aphantasia #pupillometry #mentalimagery
doi.org/10.64898/202...

The eye test for minds without pictures is getting real Close your eyes and picture a desk lamp flicking on in a dark room. For most people, the pupils pinch, as if a real bulb just flared to life. For others, nothing happens. No reflex, no ghostly light, no inner stage. That second group has a name now, and increasingly, a measurable signature: aphantasia, the near-total absence of visual imagery.

An imagery test you can't fake: pupils shrink when you imagine light—unless you're aphantasic. The lab tool turning mind's eye into measurable data. #Aphantasia #MentalImagery #Neuroscience #Pupillometry #VisionScience

New research paper examining the structural dissociation between empathy, moral valuation, and simulation-based models of social cognition.

Open access on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#Empathy
#Aphantasia
#MentalImagery
#CognitiveScience
#PhilosophyOfMind
#Neuroscience

Mental Imagery in Psychosis and Bipolar Disorder: New Research and Insights Understanding the role of mental imagery in psychosis & bipolar disorder – latest research findings, lived experience & future directions .

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🌟 Mental Imagery in Psychosis & Bipolar Disorder: New Research & Insights
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This is exactly the problem inherent with so much #mentalimagery research: without any objective external reference to validate this, it is no better (& most likely worse...) than simply asking people how clear & detailed their imagery is. Because it is literally the same question in disguise.

Also some telling quotes from people who lost #mentalimagery suddenly (acquired #aphantasia): They all sound like before the loss they could "see" things when they closed their eyes - but now it's only black. And at least the original case implies that their imagery used to look like visual #dreams

First, we review some studies that suggest (to some of us anyway) that many #mentalimagery researchers assume their participants can literally* "see" imagined stimuli: they might talk about mental images appearing "gradually" or suggest that a mental image of black lines appears light grey...

Long time in the making: our preprint of survey study on the diversity with how people seem to experience #mentalimagery. Suggests #aphantasia should be redefined as absence of depictive thought, not merely "not seeing". Some more take home msg:
#psychskysci #neuroscience

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Interesting piece on #aphantasia. But any conclusion about decoding #mentalimagery from aphants is confounded if we lump low-imagery people in with those who say they only have semantic representations. All 3 studies reviewed did exactly that. #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Photo of me standing beside my research poster

I am having the best time at #AECongress2025 !

TY @autismeurope.bsky.social for organising such a fascinating programme! TY to all those who came to see my #autism / #aphantasia / #hyperphantasia / #MentalImagery poster today, see you tomo for a #bilingualism talk + a #gender / #masking poster!

Congratulations on the article and on bringing this ambition to fruition. I hope that this approach inspires other fields to pool data on a large scale and across labs, especially when the phenomena studied are difficult to access. A nod to my field of research, #aphantasia and #mentalimagery...

@cerenayyildiz.bsky.social from the @smmb-lab.bsky.social just did a wonderful interview on live TV discussing our recent research looking at 'Can Music be good company'.
#musicscience #mentalimagery @sydney.edu.au

Can music be good company? Research shows it makes our imagination more social When people listen to music, they’re more likely to imagine social interactions.

Can music be good company?

We contributed a small piece to the @theconversation.com drawing from recent work in the field of music and mental imagery. #musicscience #mentalimagery

theconversation.com/can-music-be...

Solitary silence and social sounds: music can influence mental imagery, inducing thoughts of social interactions - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Solitary silence and social sounds: music can influence mental imagery, inducing thoughts of social interactions

Delighted to share our new work 'Solitary silence and social sounds: music can influence mental imagery, inducing thoughts of social interactions'. We show that music is indeed good company! #musicscience #mentalimagery www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@cerenayyildiz.bsky.social from the SMMBL shares at #ICMPC18 the results of her latest study, showing how layering rhythms and instruments affects imagination! #MusicScience #MentalImagery

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New from Arnold @visnerd.bsky.social lab:

Mental rotation is often regarded as paradigmatic for #mentalimagery. But it turns out people often don't use imagery for mental rotation - & when they do it is often not useful (same viewpoint trials). #visionscience #psychscisky

doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

#MentalImagery

If you have 10-20 minutes (depends on how fast you are), would you please consider doing this online study on #mentalimagery? It contains a survey & an experiment where you look at pictures and you respond what you see:
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #visionscience

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Ahem... While on the topic of #aphantasia & #mentalimagery: This preprint reports correlations between questionnaires & some measure of hippocampal asymmetry that explain 90-100% of variance. Whenever I see data like this, I'd immediately suspect a bug in the code.

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Reposting this - still looking for more participants! Especially if you (think you) have #aphantasia or #hyperphantasia, we are very interested in hearing from you... Also if you have experience of #prophantasia (cc @kerblooee.bsky.social)
#mentalimagery #visionscience #psychscisky

5 #mentalskills for #athletes to help your #training!

#abundancesomaticcenter #MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthAwareness #mentalskillstraining #sportpsychology #sportpsych #sport #sports #goal #goalsetting #stressmanagement #mentalimagery #selftalk #selfconfidence #selfefficacy