UNSW Sydney and Macquarie University psychology researchers have written an article warning that psychedelic therapies may switch on visual mental imagery in people with aphantasia and could raise the ...

Visual alterations under classic psychedelics can include rich phenomenological accounts of eyes-closed imagery. Preclinical evidence suggests agonism of the 5-HT2A receptor may reduce synaptic gain ...

Visual mental imagery has long been a central topic in vision science. Recent research has increasingly emphasized individual variability in the experience of imagery, spanning a continuum from the ...

Few rock groups have relied on visual imagery, animation, and film as heavily as Pink Floyd. The group employed psychedelic backdrops during their early club shows before commissioning short films to ...

When people read a book, they typically imagine the story in their heads. But how do people experience a story if they find it difficult or impossible to imagine what is being described? Cognitive ...