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: 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”
“If I look at the mass I will never act”: Psychic numbing and genocide
Author: Paul Slovic This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Publication: Judgment and Decision Making Date: Jan 1, 2023 Abstract Most people are caring and will exert great effortContinue reading ““If I look at the mass I will never act”: Psychic numbing and genocide”
Aphantasia: In search of a theory
Andrea Blomkvist First published: 01 July 2022, https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12432 Reproduced here under a Creative Commons license. Disclaimer: Republication of this article by the curator of this website does not imply that the curator necessarily agrees with the point of view expressed by the original author, Andrea Blomkvist. However, in this instance, he does. This is theContinue reading “Aphantasia: In search of a theory”
Spiral Case
Greenlandic birth control program Reproduced from Wikipedia under Creative Commons license. The spiral case (alternatively coil campaign, coil case or IUD case; Danish: spiralsagen or spiralkampagnen) is an ongoing investigation into a birth control campaign in Greenland during the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of Greenlandic Inuit girls and women had intrauterine devices placed, often without their consent, under the direction of Danish government officials. The program was created to control Greenland’s birth rate. GreenlandicContinue reading “Spiral Case”
Windfall tax must change in face of ‘excessive’ oil profits, Alok Sharma says
Outgoing head of climate talks says UK needs to encourage investment in renewables, not fossil fuels and calls for tax on ‘excessive’ oil profits. By Fiona Harvey https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/28/windfall-tax-must-change-in-face-of-excessive-oil-profits-alok-sharma-says Environment correspondent
The Architect Who Lost the Ability to Imagine: The Cerebral Basis of Visual Imagery
by Sandra Thorudottir 1,†, Heida M. Sigurdardottir 1,†, Grace E. Rice 2, Sheila J. Kerry 3, Ro J. Robotham 4, Alex P. Leff 3 and Randi Starrfelt 4,* 1Icelandic Vision Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Iceland, 102 Reykjavik, Iceland 2Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB27EF, UK 3Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1N3AZ, UK 4Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, 1726Continue reading “The Architect Who Lost the Ability to Imagine: The Cerebral Basis of Visual Imagery”
‘J’accuse.!’: the continuous failure to address radiophobia and placing radiation in perspective
By John C H LindbergDepartment of Geography, King’s College London, London, United KingdomDepartment of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, United KingdomOriginally published as an OPINION ARTICLE in:Journal of Radiological Protection J. Radiol. Prot. 41 (2021) 459–469 (11pp) Republished here under Creative Commons License. Disclaimer: The views expressed belong to the original author andContinue reading “‘J’accuse.!’: the continuous failure to address radiophobia and placing radiation in perspective”
Dynamic Amodal Completion Through the Magic Wand Illusion
Christopher W. Tyler https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1512-4626 cwtyler2020@gmail.com Tyler C. W. (2019). Dynamic amodal completion through the Magic Wand illusion. i-Perception, 10(6), 1–4. 10.1177/2041669519895028 First published online December 27, 2021 Republished under a Creative Commons licence. Abstract In the Magic Wand effect, an overlying figure of the same color as its background is revealed by the motion of a wand behind it. The occludingContinue reading “Dynamic Amodal Completion Through the Magic Wand Illusion”
Manipulating light can induce psychedelic experiences – and scientists aren’t quite sure why
Matthew MacKisack, University of Exeter, Reshanne Reeder, Edge Hill University Originally published in the Conversation, October 24, 2022 10.09am BST Creative Commons For millennia, people have used mind-altering techniques to achieve different states of consciousness, envision spiritual figures, connect with nature, or simply for the fun of it. Psychedelic substances, in particular, have a longContinue reading “Manipulating light can induce psychedelic experiences – and scientists aren’t quite sure why”
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