Calvin GluckJan 30, 2025
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the brains of people with aphantasia can light up as if they were generating mental images in their primary visual cortex — the main part of the brain responsible for processing visual information.
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The new research suggests that the signal "warps or stretches" before it is perceived consciously by the person with aphantasia.
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#MentalImage #Aphantasia #VisualCortex #Neuroscience #Biology
https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/people-who-cant-see-with-their-minds-eye-have-different-wiring-in-the-brain
People who can't 'see with their mind's eye' have different wiring in the brain

People with aphantasia still generate brain activity when attempting to visualize, but that image may be getting lost in translation, a new study suggests.

Live Science
PeachMcDAug 19, 2024

@nwchapman @Challis2070 @joannaholman

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#MentalImage

MetaFilterAug 8, 2024

There's an interesting link shared by Ten Cold Hot Dogs. It looks at the variations on how people process things mentally and it's a striking look at how different individuals can be, check it out!

https://www.metafilter.com/204972/There-are-variants-in-everything-human

#mentalimage #brain #neuroscience #bestofmetafilter

There are variants in everything human.

What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images? Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating...

Show threadPSiReN-X Nov 21, 2023

My abiding #MentalImage of the #2012OlympicGames is that of the #GeniusProphetSavant, #AnnieLennox "predicting" the #AngelsOfDeath from atop a #GiantBlackShip surrounded by #Choreography...

#PoweredByMetaphor

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John Griogair BellNov 2, 2023

Babalon per mentis imaginem manu sinistra

https://library.hrmtc.com/2023/11/02/babalon-per-mentis-imaginem-manu-sinistra/

Babalon per mentis imaginem manu sinistra - The Hermetic Library Blog

Babalon per mentis imaginem manu sinistra (Babalon by mental image with the left hand) Aleister Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, diary entry November 7, 1914 Consider also: The Level and the Square “Cocaine removes all hesitation. But our forefathers owed their freedom of spirit to the real liberty which they had won; and cocaine is […]

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Trevor - The Vitruvian MeepleApr 5, 2023

Your weird-ass #MentalImage of the day, courtesy of my brain:

Mark Hamill's Joker reciting, as a dramatic monologue, the lyrics of #BillyJoel's "Piano Man."

#WTF