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 is a Naturally Occurring Individual Difference”
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Defining and ‘diagnosing’ aphantasia: Condition or individual difference?
New paper in Cortex Volume 169, December 2023, Pages 220-234 Viewpoint Andrea Blomkvist a, David F. Marks b https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2023.09.004 This post follows other posts on the same topic.and gives details of a recent publication concerning aphantasia. Andrea Blomkvist and I argue for a more cautious approach towards ‘diagnosis’ of aphantasia, which may best be thought of as an individual difference. WeContinue reading “Defining and ‘diagnosing’ aphantasia: Condition or individual difference?”
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”
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