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October 8, 2020October 8, 2020  by Teresa Jungbluth

Do you see what I mean?

Honours College student Teresa Jungbluth describes aphantasia: the inability to voluntarily paint mental pictures in one’s own head. She also discusses how this affects one’s life, as well as variations in human experience and the power of visualization.

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September 2, 2020September 7, 2020  by Diana Wagner

Memorizing and Perceiving Colors: Could your Red be my Magenta?

Neuropsychological research suggests that people do not all experience and memorize colors in the same way. One person’s ‘red’ could be another person’s entirely different color. In this post, Diana Wagner explores the implications of recent research on visual perception.

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August 24, 2020  by Johannes Jamroszczyk

The Dangerous Comfort of a Hundred Replications

Experiments have confirmed our visual preference for certain orientations numerous times. But have they all missed a very important aspect? This post investigates if the visual environment has an effect on the tasks during these experiments – and what such a finding would tell us about the how replications us as researchers.

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