Lachlan Kay

Neuroscience researcher @FMLabUNSW Interested in all things brain 🧠 Music lover 🎼 and drummer 🥁

[Marco Giancotti @marco_giancotti]

My new piece on mental rotation tasks and aphantasia is out on Nautilus.

It turns out that people without mental imagery (aphantasics) do very well at tasks involving mental rotation of 3D objects.

Better, in fact, than those who have the imagery.

How can that be?

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

Slower but more accurate mental rotation performance in #aphantasia linked to differences in cognitive strategies https://t.co/GGoB35NMeC by @LachlanKay1612 @Becca_Keogh_PhD @ProfJoelPearson; mental imagery

[Lachlan Kay @LachlanKay1612]

@ProfJoelPearson @seeingwithsound But if the biofeedback signal could filter this out in real time then it should be possible. Whether it would train visual imagery ability or just voluntary control of pupil size is another question

[Lachlan Kay @LachlanKay1612]

@ProfJoelPearson @seeingwithsound This is an interesting idea! It would be tricky to pull off since the harder someone tries to modulate their pupil size with imagery, the more cognitive effort they exert and the more their pupils dilate regardless of the mental image.

[UNSW Science @UNSWScience]

Imagine a kookaburra. Can you picture it?

#Aphantasia is the inability to imagine in pictures and, until now, has been notoriously hard to detect. Now, @ProfJoelPearson and his team at @FMLabUNSW have developed a test and it's all in the eyes...
https://t.co/N71NoOlsrZ

[Prof Joel Pearson @ProfJoelPearson]

Windows to the soul: Pupils reveal 'aphantasia', the absence of visual imagination @LachlanKay1612 @Becca_Keogh_PhD @thandrillon @UNSW @UNSWScience https://t.co/tFFtMry2Ie

[Aphantasia Network @_aphantasia]

New Science! ✨ Head on over to our webpage to check out the new study conducted by Lachlan Kay, Rebecca Keogh, Thomas Andrillion, and Joel Pearson at the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia! 🥼

#aphantasia #imagination #visualimagery

[Rebecca Keogh @Becca_Keogh_PhD]

This new preprint was part of the super talented @LachlanKay1612 award-winning honours thesis 🎊 Inspired by all the really cool research showing that pupils respond to mental imagery, attention and vwm we wanted to see if pupil responses track individual diffs in visual imagery

[Prof Joel Pearson @ProfJoelPearson]

The eyes have it: The pupillary light response as a physiological index of aphantasia, sensory and phenomenological imagery strength. New preprint from the dream team @LachlanKay1612 @Becca_Keogh_PhD @thandrillon https://t.co/5V2FHwPli8

[Rebecca Keogh @Becca_Keogh_PhD]

So proud of our neuroscience honours student @LachlanKay1612 for winning the Paxinos and Watson prize for his thesis: Pupillary Response as a Measure of Visual Imagery and Aphantasia! Very well deserved! 🧠🎊🍾

[Future Minds Lab UNSW @FMLabUNSW]

A huge congrats to our talented @Becca_Keogh_PhD for winning the Emerging Researcher Award and giving a great presentation at @ACNS_Official #ACNS2019

Bec presented her recent work on #aphantasia completed with @LachlanKay1612 @ProfJoelPearson and @Thandrillon

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