(or it might be better studied than I think and I just don't read the right literature)
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Replying to @DRMacIver
I guess it might boil down to if it can be experimentally qualified and quantified – I don't if has been by anybody...?
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Replying to @o_guest
there are the classic mental rotation tasks but I've never been clear on how predictive they really are
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Replying to @DRMacIver
Yes, of course there are. But they are not and there are not AFAIK clinical tests for aphantasia.
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Replying to @o_guest @DRMacIver
some lit rev here if you haven't see it already by
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so one way to sci investigate would be to get aphantasics and non-ap ppl into an fMRI and decode them imagining or
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trying to imagine and compare the voxels w/ them actually looking at the thing. Would be way of comparing subjective
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experience VS voxel activations. Esp since we know imagining in non-ap ppl involves visual cortex a lot.
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what sort of thing do you have in mind as an imagining task?
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Replying to @DRMacIver @o_guest
(I ask because "imagine" has always been a rather under defined verb for me due to lack of visualisation)
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ok replace with "think of" the participants will be appropriately briefed.
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