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Katerina Christodoulou

@katechristodoulou.bsky.social
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PhD student exploring mental imagery, sensory sensitivity & visual perception 🧠 | Aphantasia researcher 🌌 (She/her)

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Mediterranean Society for Consciousness Science @mesec-community.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The MESEC mental imagery workshop 2026 has come to an end ☀️ We warmly thank @escop.bsky.social, whose funding made the event possible, and our participants and speakers for their scientific and human contributions to this amazing week!
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Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Very excited to get started on this multi-lab intl collab investigating the role of mental imagery, schizotypy, and sensory sensitivity in visual perception! With @mmonzel.bsky.social, @tesvlee.bsky.social, @katechristodoulou.bsky.social, and Raquel Krempel: rr.peercommunityin.org/PCIRegistere...
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A comprehensive, multi-lab visual illusion test battery will exa...
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Juan Linde-Domingo @lindedomingo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
New paper! 🚨 ~1.8K Mooney images from THINGS + ~1K participants to study visual ambiguity resolution. Results suggest the visual system shifts from a top-down guess to bottom-up matching after disambiguation, and a U-shaped link between info gain and identification. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
In standard scientific reports in psych 96% of first mentioned main hypotheses are supported. In Registered Reports, this is 46%. The 96% is clearly biased (given true H1 rate and power). Lack of transparency means we do not know the true baserate. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Derek Arnold @visnerd.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
New Paper: Pupillary responses are not a reliable index of differences in imagery vividness. Our search for more reliable metrics of imagery continues... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Imagery modulates the pupillary response, but this does not reliably index differences in imagery vividness.
Most people report that they can imagine seeing things in their mind’s eye. But there are large individual differences. A small proportion of people r…
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Sebastiaan Mathôt @cogsci.nl · 15/01/2026
🚨 #Preprint alert 🚨 A multilab study led by Claire Vanbuckave investigated whether the strength of pupil responses to imagined brightness/ darkness reflect differences in vividness of mental imagery. We found … 👇 1/3 🧵 #psychology #aphantasia #pupillometry #mentalimagery doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Pupil size reflects moment-to-moment fluctuations in mental imagery, but not (or hardly) individual differences in imagery
Previous research has shown that the eyes' pupils are larger when imaging dark as compared to bright objects or scenes. Based on this, it has been claimed that pupil size is a sensitive marker of ment...
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Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Don't miss the Superlab during the week of #ECVP2025! Lot's of research being presented by the team, including Ganzflicker (Wes Nixon), illusions (Katerina Christodoulou), emotions & memory (Emma Austin), and philosophical perspectives on amodal completion (Georgie Brighouse)!
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Serge Dumoulin @sergedumoulin.net · 14/02/2025
Psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, alters perception and induces hallucinations. In this preprint, we show through visual illusions, fMRI and modeling that psilocybin affects contextual computations, a potentially general mechanism of psychedelics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Psilocybin alters visual contextual computations
Psilocybin alters perception and brain dynamics. Contextual computations are ubiquitous in the brain. Here, we investigate the effects of psilocybin using psychophysics, ultra-high field functional MR...
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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
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Katerina Christodoulou @katechristodoulou.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Work from a while back is finally out! Grief touches most of us, and as Joshua Thomas wrote, it can feel like shattered glass. This study on prolonged grief and the “approach-avoidance hypothesis” shows stronger grief symptoms link to persistent focus on the deceased. doi.org/10.1002/jts....
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Prolonged grief symptoms and lingering attachment predict approach behavior toward the deceased
Following the death of a loved one, both approach behaviors related to the deceased (i.e., engagement with feelings, memories, and/or reminders of the deceased) and the avoidance of reminders of the ....
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