The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺1d ago
Action–intention binding coupling reveals agency architecture and breaks down in #aphantasia https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/kdcqb_v1 On mental imagery and internally generated predictive cycles
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺1d ago
Action–intention binding coupling reveals agency architecture and breaks down in #aphantasia osf.io/preprints/ps... On mental imagery and internally generated predictive cycles

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Matt2d ago

Some weird phenomenon I encountered regarding visual imagery. It's difficult for me to form and retain mental imagery, however, I found that I get very vivid imagery briefly between blinks when viewing a bright light source. I wonder if I can build some sort of shutter system that can continuously drive this effect

#vision #aphantasia

Adrianna Tan3d ago

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116438177637134938

People are always fascinated when I tell them I have no images in my head. Not even in my dreams! #aphantasia

Philip Wilson6d ago
In answer to the song's question: no, but I still love the song.
(Aphantasia hasn't slowed me down from a lifetime of creative solutions.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNNwzMjr4ww
#aphantasia #muppets
Muppet Songs: Electric Mayhem - Can You Picture That?

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺Apr 13
A cortical hierarchical mechanism for subjective visual experience during working memory https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.08.717338v1 On mental imagery, #aphantasia; "the cortical hierarchy from IPS to EVC is critical for conscious mental visualization of memory content during WM maintenance"; #neuroscience
Show threadThe vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺Apr 13
"Rather than dysfunctions in a single brain region, we identified a breakdown in feedback along a cortical pathway from the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) through area V3AB to the early visual cortex (EVC) in #aphantasia."
Rafael Garcia-SuarezApr 10
Apparently the mind's eye is working by re-using for recollection the neurons primarily used for sight. But what does it reveal on the causes of #aphantasia? Do we have any clue? https://nautil.us/the-biological-basis-of-imagination-1279716
The Biological Basis of Imagination

The Biological Basis of Imagination: Probing the mind’s eye

Anna AnthroApr 9

#Aphantasia: I don’t see images in my head. Can training give me a mind’s eye? | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2520604-i-dont-see-images-in-my-head-can-training-give-me-a-minds-eye/

I don’t see images in my head. Can training give me a mind’s eye?

Training programmes for people with aphantasia – the inability to create mental images – are challenging neuroscientists' understanding of how we create thoughts

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YamiyumeApr 8

I feel kind of stupid right about now. I just realized that I have a form of #aphantasia. I knew what that was but I thought „I can rotate 3d objects in my mind so I don’t have that.“

Turns out, that is not actually visual imagination, that is entirely spatial.

When I imagine a scene in my mind, I feel the masses of objects and how they move in space, but there are no details at all. 🫠

No wonder the only way I can draw anything from imagination is by using construction on paper and iteratively refining what I have already put down.

#drawing