Continue Reading Individual Differences What difference does it make if you are good at visual imagery, or, reversely, at spatial imagery? For one it might influence your…
Continue Reading Visual Imagery and Perception So far this week I introduced the notion that most people can see with their “mind’s eye”, but some cannot. That does…
Continue Reading Art and the Blind We often talk about the “visual arts”. But it is interesting to ask how visual the visual arts really are. One path forward…
Continue Reading Imagery and the Blind How does someone who is congenitally blind experience the world? Spatial imagery, I claimed yesterday, is one way to go. But what about…
Continue Reading Spatial imagery Yesterday we discussed the link between autobiographical memory and visual imagery. What, though, if you don’t have any skills for visualization? We…
Continue Reading Mental imagery This week I am exploring our capacity for mental imagery (or the absence thereof.) I’ve done some research on the topic 100…
Continue Reading On my way home Washington, D.C. Time to return home from my imaginary travels, but not without a layover in Washington D.C. The African American Museum will be…
Continue Reading London Calling London, GB (and the website is still not working to notify properly - patience!) Back on a plane to London to make it for what looks like a fascinating conference on architecture and art, both of…
Continue Reading Boarding for Berlin Berlin, Germany Northern Chile, 1975 If I hurry, I’ll make it in time to Berlin to attend a concert with music by some of my favorite…
Continue Reading Barge to Banksy Melbourne, Australia Next on my itinerary is getting from Seoul to Busan and boarding a freighter that will take me to Melbourne. http://www.freighterexpeditions.com.au/it-australia-to-china-via-south-korea They…