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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

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May 16

poll: when you visualize images (e.g. recall a visual memory) do those images appear in your "actual" visual field (superimposed over your actual vision) or in your "mind's eye" (a separate space from your actual vision)?

• actual visual field

  2.4%
• mind's eye

  84.5%
• they're the same

  5.6%
• can't visualize

  7.4%

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

the "mental image" wikipedia article has some relevant stuff re: whether the "mind's eye" is actually distinct from ordinary vision, nothing definitive. introspecting, i can't actually tell whether the "mind's eye" is separate or just... further up 😅 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_image…

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IsabellaElle

@intensiobject

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May 16

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@QiaochuYuan

both are ad-hoc hypotehtical modules but visual field appears to be closer to mental visualization in a real biological system as its contralaterally organized, mind's eye may be the proto form of visual field that inspired later neurologists

Ben Liddicott

@BenLiddicott

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May 16

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@QiaochuYuan

As I understand it the "mind's eye" is located in the visual cortex which has many layers linked by feedback/feedforward and each with a higher level of abstraction than the previous. (I am not an expert in this)