Giulia Cabbai

Postdoctoral Research Fellow | @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, previously @sussex.ac.uk | Mental imagery, spontaneous thoughts, @giuliacabbai.bsky.social

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So happy to see our paper finally out in @CurrentBiology ! 🥳 Link: https://t.co/JbUPt36Naj

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@PaoloBartolome0 looking forward to read this!

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@Renzo_Lanfranco @CurrentBiology Re resting state: no we didn’t do that, it’s a good idea, thank you :) I was also interested in doing a functional connectivity analysis during the listening task..planning to do that at some point!

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So happy to see our paper finally out in @CurrentBiology ! 🥳 Link: https://t.co/JbUPt36Naj

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@Renzo_Lanfranco @CurrentBiology seem affected by context effects. This result was also helpful for designing the fMRI: we were very careful in the wording of instructions for the spontaneous condition, which would always come first (before the voluntary condition, where we explicitly instructed to visualise)

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@EmaadRazzak @CurrentBiology Thank you, Emaad! :)

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@nadine_dijkstra Thank you so much Nadine! :)

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@MCapogrosso @CurrentBiology Thank you!

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@flaviadielle @CurrentBiology Grazie mille Flavia!❤️

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@ksk_S @CurrentBiology Thank you Keisuke!☺️

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@CurrentBiology Here's a thread I made on the preprinted version: https://t.co/YwMMaQnY0r

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A bit late to the party, but here's a thread about our new fMRI study preprint, in which we found that V1 is not sufficient for subjective imagery experience. https://t.co/febIePOL5S

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Aware and Alive: ASSC27 Satellite Symposium on Embodied and Phenomenological Perspectives on Consciousness
https://t.co/yGbUXpBPDx

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@nadine_dijkstra @kerblooee so cool, I always wondered whether children's source&reality monitoring errors could be due to their stronger vividness/less control over their own imagery (ie more involuntary imagery!)

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@kerblooee @WordWeaver_ @Lucidly_Elias @nataliepeluso @VeniceLove5 @itjohnstone True! But also I'm not sure whether there's a direct link, maybe it depends on the interaction with other things, e.g. emotional traits, and/or on the type/format of art (e.g. photo vs painting, abstract vs representational, surrealism vs realism, etc!)

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@WordWeaver_ @Lucidly_Elias @kerblooee @nataliepeluso @VeniceLove5 @itjohnstone sorry just saw this! yay I've been thinking about the link imagery - aesthetic experience for a while but never directly investigated it (would love to) I agree that there might be some influence! there is some stuff out there but nothing about imagery extremes as far as I know

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Special thanks to my amazing collaborators, Chris Racey, Julia Simner, Carla Dance, @JamieWardSussex and @SophieForster!😊

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This spontaneous imagery rating was followed by ratings of voluntary imagery experience of the same sounds.
In a second scanning part, participants listened to all sounds again, but this time while voluntarily conjuring visual images of the sound content.

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Taken together, these results thus show that, while V1 is not sufficient for the subjective experience of imagery, precuneus appears to play a key role in its presence.