Continue Reading Fields in Fall You can take a break from thinking hard, or worrying about November 8th, or nursing your sore throat after too much political…
Continue Reading Fauna in Fall (of an election year) I am writing this about an hour before the presidential debate – you will be reading this the day after. Any of…
Continue Reading Autumn Last week the blog was heavy on the (written) info, this week I’ll focus more on photographs that capture this time of…
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…
