Title: Imagery Agnosia

Motivation and general info:
General problem: to what degree episodic memory recreates brain states achieved during the episode? How precisely are different aspects of experience recreated, what are individual differences?
In particular, how vividly and in which modalities can one imagine the details that recognition memory can distinguish?

Some talks are here;

1. Cognitive Science and Music (PPT, 12 MB).
   International Scientific Conference Cochlear Implants and Music, Warsaw 16.07.2015

2. Mózgi i umysły, czyli co o sobie wiemy
   XXV Wykład im. Aleksandra Jabłońskiego, IF UMK, 23.02.2012; powtórka w Instytucie Biologii Doświadczalnej im. M. Nenckiego PAN 22.11.2012

3. Imagery, Creativity, Brains and Talent. (PPT 12.1 MB),
   Hitachi Advanced Research Laboratory. Hatoyama-machi, Saitama, Japan, 14.07.2010

4. Imagery Agnosia: what goes on in my head? (PPT 2.2 MB),
   Body, perception and awareness. Motor and multimodal perspectives. Torun, Poland, Nov. 23-25, 2009

5. Consciousness, Imagery and Music (PPT 2.8 MB), Abstract (PDF 0.1 MB).
   Consciousness: A Transdisciplinary, Integrated Approach, COST Action BM0605 workshop. Ghent, Nov 20-21, 2008

I have not written much on this topic so far; a few papers are linked below:

1. Duch W, Amuzja Wyobrażeniowa (Imagery Amusia), book chapter,
   Neuroestetyka muzyki, red. P. Podlipniak i P. Przybysz. Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk 2013, str. 243-266.

2. Duch W, What can we know about ourselves and how do we know it?
   In: Ed. B. Buszewski, M. Jaskuła, The World Without Borders - Science Without Borders. Societas Humboldtiana Polonorum, 2012, pp. 181-208.
3. Duch W, Neurodynamics and the mind.
   Proc. of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, San Jose, CA, IEEE Press, pp. 3227--3234, 2011.
   Presented at the IJCNN 2011, San Jose, special session "What Neural Modeling Tells Us about Ourselves''.
4. Duch W, Imagery Agnosia: what goes on in my head?
   Coma and Consciousness, Clinical, Societal and Ethical Implications. Satellite Symposium of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Studies of Consciousness, Berlin, 4-5 June 2009, p. 46
5. Duch W, Consciousness, Imagery and Music.
   COST BM0605 Meeting, Consciousness: A transdisciplinary, integrated approach, Ghent, Belgium, Nov. 2008 (abstract), pp. 15-16.

Other relevant papers:

1. Bill Faw, Conflicting Intuitions May Be Based On Differing Abilities: Evidence from Mental Imaging Research. Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 16, Number 4, 2009, pp. 45-68(24)
2. Reflections on aphantasia. Cortex, Volume 74, January 2016, Pages 336-337 Adam Zeman, Michaela Dewar, Sergio Della Sala
3. Refusing to imagine? On the possibility of psychogenic aphantasia. A commentary on Zeman et al. (2015) Cortex, Volume 74, January 2016, Pages 334-335 Stefania de Vito, Paolo Bartolomeo
4. Lives without imagery – Congenital aphantasia Cortex, Volume 73, December 2015, Pages 378-380 Adam Zeman, Michaela Dewar, Sergio Della Sala
5. Blind in the mindOriginal Research Article New Scientist, Volume 230, Issue 3070, 23 April 2016, Pages 34-37 Dustin Grinnell
6. Decoding the direction of imagined visual motion using 7 T ultra-high field fMRIOriginal Research Article NeuroImage, Volume 125, 15 January 2016, Pages 61-73 Thomas C. Emmerling, Jan Zimmermann, Bettina Sorger, Martin A. Frost, Rainer Goebel
7. Papers on earworms, especially L.A. Liikkanen on Involuntary Musical Imagery (INMI), or Lia Kvavilashvili on mind-pops.

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