OPMs are going social! First two person data looking promising 🤞

Okay I have achieved some mild progress installing my new research computer. This is as productive as it gets for this week I think... Time for the weekend! PSA: Any more tweets about mental imagery will have to wait till Monday 😏

Check out our latest (from Elaine Anderson and some fabulous co-authors including Sam Schwarzkopf (sampendu.bsky.social)): fMRI and gene therapy in adults with CNGB3 mutation doi.org/10.1016/j.brai…

Oy, Brissy, but this is some buss**t. Why is the temperature dropping by 10 degrees for literally the whole time I'm there for?

A fascinating survey on mental imagery! I learned a lot about how I perceive things with my mind’s eye.

Have you ever had a song stuck in your head? Then you might be interested in our new #musicscience work just published in PLOS Biology doi.org/10.1371/journa… We used decoding to investigate how the brain represents perceived and imagined musical sounds. TL;DR below 1/

New Preprint: Imagery priming of binocular rivalry is not a reliable metric of individual differences in the subjective vividness of visualisations We make the important point that imagery priming of BR dominance is not an objective measure of imagery biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Preprint: It's been suggested that Aphants may be able to visualise, but lack insight, as they can do Mental Rotation (MR) tasks. Instead, we show MR tasks are a weak measure of the propensity to visualise. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Not really a new preprint, but substantial revision of one from earlier this year, including a changed title (tbh I never liked the old one anyway): doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Report on our New Study: Don’t think of a Pink Elephant! Aphants, and people with low vividness imagery, may be resistant to intrusive visualisations! #Aphantasia #Imagery theconversation.com/the-pink-eleph…

Sorry but that title is terrible. Doesn't roll off the tongue at all. Some many better options: - "Meet The Moggies" - "Reesing Up With The Moggs" - "The Only Way Is Somerset" - "The Great British Jerk Off" - "How The Haughty Have Fallen"

At long last, the article by Jenny Huang & me on a likelihood framework to quantify statistical evidence for small sample studies (the "universality test") is published in Psychological Methods: doi.org/10.1037/met000… Happy Christmas & New Year to all!

It is the end of an era at CORTEX As the irreplaceable Sergio Della Sala has now stepped down as EiC, Rob McIntosh Rob McIntosh is taking over the reign, with a wholly reorganised editorial board. I'll try to do my best to support this new chapter: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Here is a new, shorter version of our mental imagery survey. Please if you can spare a few minutes we would appreciate if you could take this & pass it along to others who might be interested. Thanks! tstbl.co/763-452 #visionscience #aphantasia #mentalimagery

If you have 10-20 minutes (depends on how fast you are), would you please consider doing this online study on #mentalimagery & #visualperception? It contains a survey & an experiment where you look at pictures and you respond what you see: tstbl.co/820-917