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As there is some overlap with autism, I figured some of you might be interested in joining this community!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/107397

CROSS-INSTANCE LINK (may not work): c/[email protected]

Link for beehaw here (may not work)

Otherwise search for: [[email protected]](/c/[email protected])

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/107214

Aphantasia is the inability to create mental imagery.

For discussion, research or memes.

Example: I have a community c/[email protected]

Searching for these on other instances like beehaw.org or lemmy.one:

• [[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
• https://lemmy.world/c/lanadelrey
• https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
• c/[email protected]
• lanadelrey

Gives No results. even after waiting several minutes and trying multiple times

I had this problem with [email protected] too, but now it seems to work as expected! So this begs the question: is there a delay before the communities can be discovered? How long do you have to wait in general?

The study, led by researchers from UNSW Sydney and published in eLife, found that the pupils of people with aphantasia did not respond when asked to imagine dark and light objects, while those without aphantasia did.

Link to the actual research article referenced above here.

Abstract

The pupillary light response is an important automatic physiological response which optimizes light reaching the retina. Recent work has shown that the pupil also adjusts in response to illusory brightness and a range of cognitive functions, however, it remains unclear what exactly drives these endogenous changes. Here, we show that the imagery pupillary light response correlates with objective measures of sensory imagery strength. Further, the trial-by-trial phenomenological vividness of visual imagery is tracked by the imagery pupillary light response. We also demonstrated that a group of individuals without visual imagery (aphantasia) do not show any significant evidence of an imagery pupillary light response, however they do show perceptual pupil light responses and pupil dilation with larger cognitive load. Our results provide evidence that the pupillary light response indexes the sensory strength of visual imagery. This work also provides the first physiological validation of aphantasia.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/124054

A community for fans of the Coney Island Queen.

All things LDR—Talk about music, rumors, theories, opinions, videos, photoshoots, poetry, and more!

Rules:

• Be nice even if you disagree.
• Criticism is okay, but no trolling or low-effort posts.
• This is not a community for spreading hate and negativity.
• No NSFW.
• No spam.
• No advertisment.
• No violence.
• Discuss about her music, not her looks.
• No illegal material. It's okay to talk about leaked songs, but direct links are to be avoided.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/124054

A community for fans of the Coney Island Queen.

All things LDR—Talk about music, rumors, theories, opinions, videos, photoshoots, poetry, and more!

Rules:

• Be nice even if you disagree.
• Criticism is okay, but no trolling or low-effort posts.
• This is not a community for spreading hate and negativity.
• No NSFW.
• No spam.
• No advertisment.
• No violence.
• Discuss about her music, not her looks.
• No illegal material. It's okay to talk about leaked songs, but direct links are to be avoided.

A community for fans of the Coney Island Queen.

All things LDR—Talk about music, rumors, theories, opinions, videos, photoshoots, poetry, and more!

Rules:

• Be nice even if you disagree.
• Criticism is okay, but no trolling or low-effort posts.
• This is not a community for spreading hate and negativity.
• No NSFW.
• No spam.
• No advertisment.
• No violence.
• Discuss about her music, not her looks.
• No illegal material. It's okay to talk about leaked songs, but direct links are to be avoided.

I put the pro in procrastinator.