We assume students see pictures in their minds as they learn. But not everyone can

Aphantasia and Hyperphantasia: How the Absence or Vividness of Mental Imagery Shapes Memory and Identity

This article explores aphantasia (the inability to visualize mental images) and hyperphantasia (extremely vivid mental imagery), examining h

Neuroscientist challenges decades-old model of how vision and thinking work in the brain

Neuroscientist Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana is challenging the long-held conventional view that vision is a passive, feed-forward process w

Neuroscientist challenges decades-old model of how vision and thinking work in the brain

Neuroscientist Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana is challenging the long-held conventional view that vision is a passive, feed-forward process w

The Unexpected Challenges of Human Vision and Perception

The article begins with a personal anecdote about the author's childhood memory of spotting a police car from a distance, using this as a me

How psychedelics may unlock new forms of consciousness by altering the brain's visual imagination

A cognitive neuroscientist explores how studying the brain's visual representations—both of the real world and of imagined scenes (memories,

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Analyzing Apple's Paper on AI Language Models

Apple released a paper titled The Illusion of Thinking, questioning the reasoning abilities of AI language models. The paper challenges the