Before we begin, a definition is necessary. In the dialogues that follow, you will be invited to imagine a professor vomiting gold coins. This is not a street crime, it’s a modern form of alchemy. In the strange world of academia, “gold” is a metaphor for the prestige of professors and universities that are atContinue reading “Dialogue 1: Old Wine In New Bottles”
Category Archives: Mental imagery
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””
Fechner, Taine and Galton: Early Investigators of Visual Mental Imagery
Here we review the early research of three pioneering investigators of visual mental imagery (VMI): Fechner in Germany, Taine in France, and Galton in England. Gustav Fechner’s 1860 work on mental imagery was his magnum opus, Elemente der Psychophysik (Elements of Psychophysics), predating both Taine and Galton’s investigations and placing him as one of theContinue reading “Fechner, Taine and Galton: Early Investigators of Visual Mental Imagery”
Abuses of VVIQ rapidly increasing
This post addresses an issue which relates to the unwarranted ‘medicalisation’ of low visual mental imagery vividness scores. This trend follows an unfortunate labelling of people with low VVIQ scores as “aphantasic’ by a neurologist Adam Zeman at Exeter University in 2015. Added today to the VVIQ and VVIQ-2 instructions: Warning Neither the original 16-itemContinue reading “Abuses of VVIQ rapidly increasing”
Subjective Validation Strikes Again: Mars Exploration Conducted for the US Government, May 22, 1984
Yet more pseudoscience has emerged from the remote viewing project StarGate funded by the CIA/DoD. This latest example of trash science promoted by the US government is a distraction from less palatable topics such as the Israel/Palestine and Russia/Ukraine conflicts, the Sudan genocide, the stoking of new wars, global warming, and multiple other catastrophes forContinue reading “Subjective Validation Strikes Again: Mars Exploration Conducted for the US Government, May 22, 1984”
Review of ‘Start Over As Your Real Self’
Start Over As Your Real Self: And Balance Everything to be Happy by David F. Marks, PhD book review by Carol Anderson, D.Min., ACSW “The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.” Marks’ book focuses on mental health and healthy life practices. The fifty-four short chapters include topics related to fostering creativity,Continue reading “Review of ‘Start Over As Your Real Self’”
Breakthrough Article: Association of visual conscious experience vividness with human cardiopulmonary function
AUTHORS: Yan Sun1 , Xiaojuan Xue1 , Zefeng Li1 , Hailin Ma2,3, Delong Zhang1 1 Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences, Ministry of Education, China; School of Psychology, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China 2 Plateau BrainContinue reading “Breakthrough Article: Association of visual conscious experience vividness with human cardiopulmonary function”
Aphantasia Network’s Variant ‘VVIQ’: Buyer Beware
The variant of the VVIQ used by the Aphantasia Network has not been psychometrically validated.
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new research shows that cats track their owner’s movements Cats are special and intelligent creatures, and a new study led by Dr. Saho Takagi at the … cat tracks.
Vividness of Movement Imagery Questionnaire (VMIQ)
The VMIQ is a widely used self-report measure of movement imagery. Originally published in 1986, it uses the same conceptual framework as the VVIQ. The VMIQ was constructed together with my PhD student, Anne Isaac, at the University of Otago, New Zealand, in collaboration with David G Russell. I post here the first page ofContinue reading “Vividness of Movement Imagery Questionnaire (VMIQ)”
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