Giulia Cabbai
@giuliacabbai.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Fellow | @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, previously @sussex.ac.uk | Mental imagery, spontaneous thoughts, multisensory perception
Thank you, I totally agree on the VVIQ point (I also think we need a better measure) and that researchers should be more consistent in their cutoff criteria/definitions. This figure looks very interesting, I look forward to read your latest paper!
October 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Thank you, I totally agree on the VVIQ point (I also think we need a better measure) and that researchers should be more consistent in their cutoff criteria/definitions. This figure looks very interesting, I look forward to read your latest paper!
Hi! While I agree with your point, in our study (Cabbai et al., 2024) nearly all aphantasics (22/24) had a VVIQ score = 16 (the minimum), with only 2 slightly higher. Removing those 2 does not change the V1 spontaneous imagery decoding results.
October 1, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Hi! While I agree with your point, in our study (Cabbai et al., 2024) nearly all aphantasics (22/24) had a VVIQ score = 16 (the minimum), with only 2 slightly higher. Removing those 2 does not change the V1 spontaneous imagery decoding results.
Thank you so much!
April 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Thank you so much!
Hi, this sounds really interesting, would love to read these papers :) could you please share the link to them?
April 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Hi, this sounds really interesting, would love to read these papers :) could you please share the link to them?
Reposted by Giulia Cabbai
Finally, if you are an academic and want to read the publication, "The impact of aphantasia on mental healthcare experiences" by Mawtus et al, 2024:
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The Impact of Aphantasia on Mental Healthcare Experiences
Approximately 4% of the population has aphantasia, which is defined as impoverished, or absent, sensory mental imagery. Previous research suggests that people with aphantasia (aphants) may have a high...
online.ucpress.edu
April 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Finally, if you are an academic and want to read the publication, "The impact of aphantasia on mental healthcare experiences" by Mawtus et al, 2024:
online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
Really interesting work! As you didn't ask them to imagine while reading, your results suggest to me they generated spontaneous visual representation and, together with the contrast fixation dur/subj experience, they seem in line with our spontaneous imagery condition in www.cell.com/current-biol...
Sensory representations in primary visual cortex are not sufficient for subjective imagery
Cabbai et al. test whether sensory representations in primary visual cortex (V1) can
be dissociated from subjective mental imagery. They find that V1 representations can
occur without subjective exper...
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April 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Really interesting work! As you didn't ask them to imagine while reading, your results suggest to me they generated spontaneous visual representation and, together with the contrast fixation dur/subj experience, they seem in line with our spontaneous imagery condition in www.cell.com/current-biol...