Charles Bonnet syndrome is characterised by visual hallucinations that cannot be explained by any other cause in individuals with visual impairment. Tangta

Congenital Aphantasia initially described a lifelong inability to visualise. But it is now understood to manifest as imaginative inabilities that can …

Scientific Reports - Heterogeneous relationships between the multisensory content of aphantasics’ dreams and their volitional waking imagined experiences

Aphantasia is characterised by an inability to have volitional imagined sensations. While initially characterised as an inability to visualise, Aphant…

Shake up your Tuesday night.<br /> <br /> Pint of Science brings researchers into the pub to explore how our minds work, differ and change. From the way people experie…

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Visual mental imagery and visual working memory are often thought to be closely related. After all, both have been argued to involve the temporary mai…

Abstract. Multistable perceptual phenomena provide insights into the mind’s dynamic states within a stable external environment, and the neural underpinnin

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Tangtartharakul and Storrs use standardized neuropsychological tests to compare human visual abilities with those of visual language models (VLMs). They report that while VLMs excel in high-level obje...

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…

To some extent, humans can re-experience the sensations of past events and pre-experience the future. These capacities are inter-related. But there are substantial individual differences. At the extre...

AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. Auditory-verbal hallucinations (AVH)—the experience of hearing voices in the absence of auditory stimulation—are a cardi

Research shows people with more vivid visual imaginations may also be more prone to certain kinds of intrusive thoughts.

Recognising faces is crucial to social interactions, and also in applied settings such as criminal investigations. Research has shown that there are widespread differences in people’s ability to recog...