UNSW Sydney and Macquarie University psychology researchers have written an article warning that psychedelic therapies may switch on visual mental imagery in people with aphantasia and could raise the ...

You may think you know what you like -- how to spend your time or what profession to pursue. But a new study suggests that your pre-existing self-beliefs, as well as cultural stereotypes, may ...

Recent studies have explored the dynamic interplay between ocular behaviour and the retrieval of visual memories. Notably, eye movements observed during mental imagery often reflect the patterns ...

Rebecca Keogh works for the University of New South Wales and has received funding from the Australian Government in the form of an APA scholarship during her PhD. Joel Pearson receives funding from ...

We tend to think of writing and photography as separate domains. Writing is all about word choice and sequence and structure; it's about rhyme and rhythm and flow. Photography, on the other hand, is ...

We know some people can’t conjure up mental images. But we’re only beginning to understand the impact this “aphantasia” might have on their education Never underestimate the power of visualisation. It ...

Can people evaluate phenomenal qualities of internally generated experiences, such as whether a mental image is vivid or detailed? This question exemplifies a problem of metacognition: How well do ...

If you take a look around, you will see nothing human-made that did not first exist as an image in someone’s mind. It is impossible to create something that cannot first be imagined. Psychologists ...

We conducted three experiments indicating that characteristically deontological judgments—here, disapproving of sacrificing one person for the greater good of others—are preferentially supported by ...