Alfredo Spagna: alfredospagna.bsky.social

How do social stereotypes shape and reflect our visual imagination? 🤔 Lead by @beneisenstadt, this paper investigates the crucial role of visual mental imagery in forming, maintaining, and perpetuating stereotypes & prejudice. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…

The paper I've worked on for half of my adult life with @SpagnaPhD is out now! We considered stereotyping processes as a function of visual mental imagery and explored some juicy areas for future integrative research 🤓 check it out & dm for full work! ⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

Wonderful talk by Marlene Behrmann at @ZuckermanBrain on “The development, hemispheric organization, and plasticity of high-level vision”!

We have announced the accepted Symposia and Tutorials for @ASSC2025 in Heraklion, Crete #Consciousness @ASSC2025 28th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness assc2025.gr/programme/symp…

Vivid imagery or aphantasia? Do you have what it takes to remember complex sequences? An online test takes 10-15 minutes on phone browser. Just remember the dot positions and then reproduce it with your index finger ☝️. Link here: etabbane.fr/experiments/me…

It was so wonderful to meet with the Faculty & Students of the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program @CityCollegeNY for a chat intersecting #mentalimagery and #clinicalpractice in psychology. Download slides in pdf here: dropbox.com/scl/fi/4shpzme…

What a terrific talk from Sarah Shomstein @GWUAttentionCo1 on Attentional Platypi followed by a vibrant Q&A session @ColumbiaPSYC Department Colloquium. Thanks to everyone who attended! Let’s “Rethink Attention”. 🧠

Today we officially launch the @SussexCentre for Consciousness Science, here at @SussexUni. I'm looking forward to welcoming researchers and guests to our opening event this evening, on Sussex campus. Find out more: sussex.ac.uk/research/centr… youtu.be/pSozqkIYXJ8

So happy to see our paper finally out in @CurrentBiology ! 🥳 Link: cell.com/current-biolog…

Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah Shomstein researched perception for years before she realized that her inner world differed from her peers: She can’t “see” mental images. quantamagazine.org/what-happens-i…

Finding $$$ for consciousness research in the USA is challenging. In this short piece, @noraabradford, @angelaashen, @meganakpeters and I discuss the TWCF-supported "Fund Consciousness Science!" project and talk about its motivation, execution, & outcomes rdcu.be/dWVFk

I'm headed to Chicago for #SfN24, where I'm presenting a poster tomorrow (Saturday, Oct 5th) afternoon on recent updates to the specparam (formerly fooof) method! Poster board V6 from 1-5 pm. Stop by if you want to chat on anything specparam / aperiodic / oscillations related!

A mix of scientific mindsets, disciplines, tools and methods were on full display at our inaugural SciFest gathering. From the proteins behind neurodegenerative diseases to how brains make sense of speech to theoretical, statistical and AI tools to drive neuroscience forward, it…

Amazing talk by Chris Baker “Embracing the complexity of visual understanding” at #SAW2024. @Chris_I_Baker @NIMHgov

We are now with Hans Op de Beeck and “Visual categories in the brain are alive and kicking: Bodies and faces rule object space”. #SAW2024 @hans_opdebeeck @KU_Leuven

Thanks for sharing this interesting read! The multidimensional investigation of imagery definitely aligns with our focus of defining+measuring distinct aspects of VMI. My project similarly explores VMI and VWM interaction with psychophysiological metrics. Hope to share more soon!