Very interesting article about #aphantasia and #hyperphantasia. I discovered I have aphantasia about two years ago BTW. https://archive.ph/iMdvd#selection-3181.0-3181.628
#hyperphantasia
Art Series: #WindsweptInfinity
WIP Album: #Hyperphantasia
Title: Lost In The Labyrinth of Nightmares
I made another song and companion artwork in the same vein as the one I posted a month ago, but this one is quite a bit heavier. Structured beats and arpeggiated ambience from the Deluge, and improvised analog sorcery from the Typhon.
https://alonetone.com/Metamere/tracks/lost-in-the-labyrinth-of-nightmares
Lucid dreams can be visually extremely vivid, detailed and realistic. So our brain is capable of very high quality mental imagery, perhaps like #hyperphantasia. Then what is normally blocking our brain from switching to such a state while awake? We have a use case. #neuroscience
Lucid dreams can be visually extremely vivid, detailed and realistic. So our brain is capable of very high quality mental imagery, perhaps like #hyperphantasia. Then what is normally blocking our brain from switching to such a state while awake? We have a use case. #neuroscience
#Hyperphantasia affects about 3% of the population. Here's how to tell if you have it https://www.self.com/story/hyperphantasia "Exceptionally vivid mental imagery can seem like a superpower—but it can also be incredibly distracting."
An international estimate of the prevalence of differing visual imagery abilities https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1454107/full 0.9% #aphantasia, 3.3% #hypophantasia, 89.7% #typical imagery, 6.1% #hyperphantasia; mental imagery, #VVIQ
Worked out today in a meeting (yeah, anecdotal and everything) that while I, the #UX product manager have #aphantasia, the UX design lead has #hyperphantasia. Many lols.
This is an updated version of a post I've had pinned on my profile for a couple of years. Like anything related to the study of the brain, there's always new information coming out. This is a more detailed overview, of a very interesting phenomenon, and one I actually experience.
“I Couldn’t Really Imagine, What it’s Like To Not Imagine…” https://outofexileidr.vivaldi.net/2024/10/09/i-couldnt-really-imagine-what-its-like-to-not-imagine/
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#Imagination #Neurodivergent #PhotorealisticImagination #Aphantasia #Hyperphantasia #neuroscience @disability @disabledvoices
Would love to see people with #aphantasia and #hyperphantasia as well as #neurotypicals train with The vOICe, visualizing the veridical auditory "description" ahead of the appearance of the ground truth image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihSbdGjB3BQ mental imagery
@transponderings@autistics.life There was some talk about aphantasia and hyperphantasia during the Q&A (Chloe is hyperphantasic, being able to do eyes-open visualisation)
I shared my 2018 blog post, which I should really update at some point: https://transponderings.blog/2018/11/28/a-fantasia-on-aphantasia/
Does anyone else ever imagine when someone says that they "have no more fucks to give", that they had one wrapped in a box, tied with a bow, until they gave it away?
#RandomThoughts #Slang #Idioms #Hyperphantasia? #Hyperliteral?
The neural basis of a cognitive function that suppresses the generation of mental imagery: evidence from a functional magnetic resonance imaging study https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5150/8/2/18 "left posterior cingulate gyrus suppresses mental imagery generation"; implications for understanding #aphantasia, #hyperphantasia?
As many as 1 in 30 people experience intense visual imagery, called #hyperphantasia, that means they can replay memories or imagine scenes that are as vivid as real life. #biology #neuralnetworks https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/20/like-a-film-in-my-mind-hyperphantasia-and-the-quest-to-understand-vivid-imaginations?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=5c47fb2e51-nature-briefing-daily-20240422&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-5c47fb2e51-50179668
William Blake’s imagination is thought to have burned with such intensity that,
when creating his great artworks,
he needed little reference to the physical world.
While drawing historical or mythical figures, for instance, he would wait until the “spirit” appeared in his mind’s eye.
The visions were apparently so detailed that Blake could sketch as if a real person were sitting before him.
Such intense and detailed imaginations are thought to reflect a condition known as hyperphantasia,
and it may not be nearly as rare as we once thought, with as many as one in 30 people reporting incredibly vivid mind’s eyes
#Aphantasia and #hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(24)00034-2 mental imagery #neuroscience
(YouTube) Mental imagery challenge: can you visualize in just a second what's in a soundscape? Try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RLIvorKeKg Every 2 seconds a soundscape with black background plays, followed by the same soundscape but then showing the source image; #BCI #NeuroTech #BrainTraining
No idea if people with #aphantasia can make any sense of this exercise, of if people with #hyperphantasia fair any better?
Predicting the subjective intensity of imagined sensory experiences from electrophysiological measures of oscillatory brain activity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.31.564917v1 "can be predicted by the power of distinct rhythms of brain activity"; #neuroscience of #mental #imagery, #aphantasia and #hyperphantasia
People with #aphantasia "often report also being unable to voluntarily generate and experience a mental soundscape, other than internal speech".
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