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Alexander Sulfaro (Alex)

@sulfaro.bsky.social

Postdoctoral researcher of mental imagery and working memory at Macquarie University, Sydney. scholar.google.com/citations?user=1…

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Alexander Sulfaro (Alex) @sulfaro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Did Elsevier just get hacked? Looks like their website now redirects to a ransom page...

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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Wow 🔥🔥🔥 link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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Mental image vividness and aphantasia judgements are fundamentally compromised by overlooked definition problems - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Vividness judgements are intended to capture variance in the axis that uniquely separates the experience of a mental image from other unambiguously sensory perceptual experiences, and from a completel...

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Alexander Sulfaro (Alex) @sulfaro.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Why opt to directly misrepresent the paper?

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Alexander Sulfaro (Alex) @sulfaro.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

📣New in PBR: Mental image vividness and aphantasia judgements are fundamentally compromised by overlooked definition problems. doi.org/10.3758/s134...

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Alexander Sulfaro (Alex) @sulfaro.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

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Alexander Sulfaro (Alex) @sulfaro.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Am curious about this debate because I feel like lesion studies would be fairly conclusive evidence that V1 is not necessary for mental imagery anyway. It can still be depictive without EVC (but "depictive" != "identical to a retinal image experience"). From doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Alexander Sulfaro (Alex) @sulfaro.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

If we ask all of them to visualise a black square instead, the idea that we can replicate mental image experiences with real images breaks. The diff between mental and real images can't be reduced to blur/saturation/etc philarchive.org/rec/AMYIV philpapers.org/rec/BOUWAS

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Alexander Sulfaro (Alex) @sulfaro.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Researcher: Let's throw a ball on the weekend P1: *brings a catcher’s mitt* P2: *brings a ballgown* Me: Shouldn’t we clarify what we mean by “ball”? Researcher: No need, we have shown meaningful differences in how P1/P2 experience the world Is this where we're at for ind diffs in mental imagery?

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