Mathematicians and other thought-workers, what kind of mental images do you use for your thinking?

#MentalImages #Thinking #Mathematics

Black and white
16.7%
Colourful
55.6%
No images at all
11.1%
Something else (please write about it)
16.7%
Poll ended at .

"Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences."

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-happens-in-a-mind-that-cant-see-mental-images-20240801/

#Neuroscience #Research #MentalImages #Aphantasia

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 the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences.

Quanta Magazine

One of the things I ♥️ about Mastodon is how good people generally are about adding #AltText to images

Often the text is as good as, or better, than the actual image

See: https://mastodon.social/@nealr/109562270820166628

#CatsOfMastodon #VisualDescriptions #MentalImages