Samuel Evans
@speechandbrains.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscientist. Trying to work out how the brain understands language.
Inspire at least twenty students to throw their lives away by going to graduate school.
May 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Inspire at least twenty students to throw their lives away by going to graduate school.
Yes - the does it really do anything or is it just an epiphenomenon...
April 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Yes - the does it really do anything or is it just an epiphenomenon...
Then you have the issue of small sample sizes and file drawer problem...
April 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Then you have the issue of small sample sizes and file drawer problem...
I'm personally open minded -but agree with issues you've raised about the difficulty of reflecting on your own/others internal experiences. Also a problem that this area sits on a broader unresolved question about functional role of imagery -so built on shifting sands in terms of finding evidence.
April 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I'm personally open minded -but agree with issues you've raised about the difficulty of reflecting on your own/others internal experiences. Also a problem that this area sits on a broader unresolved question about functional role of imagery -so built on shifting sands in terms of finding evidence.
Our work in the auditory domain: majority recruited on basis of self reported visual aphant, also report auditory aphant, but as with visual domain, we did not find strong/any evidence in behavioural tasks we hoped would index auditory imagery: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
No clear evidence of a difference between individuals who self-report an absence of auditory imagery and typical imagers on auditory imagery tasks
Aphantasia is characterised by the inability to create mental images in one’s mind. Studies investigating impairments in imagery typically focus on the visual domain. However, it is possible to genera...
journals.plos.org
April 15, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Our work in the auditory domain: majority recruited on basis of self reported visual aphant, also report auditory aphant, but as with visual domain, we did not find strong/any evidence in behavioural tasks we hoped would index auditory imagery: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...