{"id":150,"date":"2016-12-22T11:28:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T11:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candicemorey.org\/?p=150"},"modified":"2016-12-22T12:16:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T12:16:04","slug":"150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.candicemorey.org\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Individual differences in experiencing visual imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One frustration with studying visual memory is that we have no way to directly experience what someone else sees in their mind. When trying to understand individuals&#8217; memories about uncontrolled events, we rely mainly on verbal descriptions of visual memories and individuals\u2019 feelings of confidence in the clarity and vividness of those memories. There is a lot of variability here. Some people believe that their visual memories are as clear and high-fidelity as a photograph (though there are very few examples of this fidelity being put to a convincing objective test; see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/science\/2006\/04\/kaavya_syndrome.html\">this article<\/a> for an overview). Other people report experiencing no visual imagery at all (see <a href=\"http:\/\/psychsciencenotes.blogspot.co.uk\/2010\/03\/cant-form-mental-image-no-big-deal.html\">here<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2010\/mar\/23-the-brain-look-deep-into-minds-eye\">here<\/a>\u00a0for descriptions and discussion), even when asked to imagine something that should be extremely familiar. Most of our experiences probably fall somewhere in between these extremes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">My student Gintare Siugzdinyte is currently studying individual differences in visual imagination experiences, and hoping to attract a large and diverse sample to respond to a short questionnaire. Later in 2017 after we have analyzed these data, I can provide an update about what we learned about visual imagery from this survey. You can find our\u00a0survey <a href=\"https:\/\/edinburghppls.qualtrics.com\/SE\/?SID=SV_7aphPJ3t0Xb76sd\">here<\/a>. Thanks very much for your help!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One frustration with studying visual memory is that we have no way to directly experience what someone else sees in their mind. When trying to understand individuals&#8217; memories about uncontrolled events, we rely mainly on verbal descriptions of visual memories and individuals\u2019 feelings of confidence in the clarity and vividness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[21,20,22,18,19],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-measurement","category-research","tag-aphantasia","tag-non-imagers","tag-photographic-memory","tag-visual-imagery","tag-visual-memory","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.candicemorey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.candicemorey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.candicemorey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.candicemorey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.candicemorey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.candicemorey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/www.candicemorey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.candicemorey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.candicemorey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.candicemorey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}