There's so much great work on imagining and its varieties at the moment.
E.g. @eazanon.bsky.social, @kerblooee.bsky.social and others' introduction of #prophantasia: the ability to project mental images into the external world osf.io/preprints/os...
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
Hold your hand out in front of you, and with your eyes open, imagine an apple sitting in your outstretched hand. Can you see it? Can you feel its weight? How realistic is your projection?
Philosophers (Bence Nanay, Cavedon-Taylor) and Galton (1880) have talked about mental projection, but it is rarely investigated as a dimension of imagery in experiments. Adding a #prophantasia test (see picture) to your study could reveal new insights!
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#prophantasia ability predicts perception/ imagery interference. Not vividness. So when researchers ask people to imagine a stimulus on their screen - are they measuring prophantasia ability rather than imagery vividness? The same question asked by @sampendu.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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We didn't just ask people to rate their imagery vividness, but also their 'augmented imagery' - #prophantasia is the ability to project mental images into the external world, like imagery-augmented reality. To what extent does this dimension of imagery influence perception? We got a surprise!
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