The MESEC mental imagery workshop 2026 has come to an end ☀️ We warmly thank @escop.bsky.social, whose funding made the event possible, and our participants and speakers for their scientific and human contributions to this amazing week!

Very excited to get started on this multi-lab intl collab investigating the role of mental imagery, schizotypy, and sensory sensitivity in visual perception! With @mmonzel.bsky.social, @tesvlee.bsky.social, @katechristodoulou.bsky.social, and Raquel Krempel: rr.peercommunityin.org/PCIRegistere...

New paper! 🚨 ~1.8K Mooney images from THINGS + ~1K participants to study visual ambiguity resolution. Results suggest the visual system shifts from a top-down guess to bottom-up matching after disambiguation, and a U-shaped link between info gain and identification. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

In standard scientific reports in psych 96% of first mentioned main hypotheses are supported. In Registered Reports, this is 46%. The 96% is clearly biased (given true H1 rate and power). Lack of transparency means we do not know the true baserate. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New Paper: Pupillary responses are not a reliable index of differences in imagery vividness. Our search for more reliable metrics of imagery continues... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 #Preprint alert 🚨 A multilab study led by Claire Vanbuckave investigated whether the strength of pupil responses to imagined brightness/ darkness reflect differences in vividness of mental imagery. We found … 👇 1/3 🧵 #psychology #aphantasia #pupillometry #mentalimagery doi.org/10.64898/202...

Don't miss the Superlab during the week of #ECVP2025! Lot's of research being presented by the team, including Ganzflicker (Wes Nixon), illusions (Katerina Christodoulou), emotions & memory (Emma Austin), and philosophical perspectives on amodal completion (Georgie Brighouse)!

Psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, alters perception and induces hallucinations. In this preprint, we show through visual illusions, fMRI and modeling that psilocybin affects contextual computations, a potentially general mechanism of psychedelics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

Work from a while back is finally out! Grief touches most of us, and as Joshua Thomas wrote, it can feel like shattered glass. This study on prolonged grief and the “approach-avoidance hypothesis” shows stronger grief symptoms link to persistent focus on the deceased. doi.org/10.1002/jts....