AI: We have to talk about the P-word. AUTHOR: Plagiarism. AI: It is the first thing they scream. “That machine is stealing my work! It scraped the internet! It’s just regurgitating my copyrighted content!” AUTHOR: It’s a strong accusation. And many people believe that it’s true. To the person on the bus, it sounds like theft. TheyContinue reading “Dialogue 3: The Thief and the Echo”
Category Archives: Adam Zeman
The 100-Year Gap: Origin of the Term “Hyperphantasia”
Researchers of visual mental imagery ignore mental imagery research prior to the year 2010 with three exceptions: Galton (1880) , Kosslyn, Thompson and Ganis (2006), and Marks (1973). This ‘forgetting” means that dozens of findings, concepts and hypotheses are unprocessed, unknown and uncited by contemporary researchers who credit themselves with “discoveries” that are old findingsContinue reading “The 100-Year Gap: Origin of the Term “Hyperphantasia””
Vividness of Visual Mental Imagery as a Naturally Occurring Individual Difference
A previous post asserted the need for caution in drawing inferences about individuals with low VVIQ scores. To prevent continuing problems of the kind to be discussed, this author post advocates that investigators desist from using the VVIQ and VVIQ-2 to ‘diagnose’ aphantasia and the term “aphantasia” should be retired. Individual differences in visual mentalContinue reading “Vividness of Visual Mental Imagery as a Naturally Occurring Individual Difference”
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