Florent Lebon 🧠

We'd like to thank @pci-hms.bsky.social for this review process on this opinion letter. Being able to get a pre-print reviewed, without paying APC #diamondopenaccess + having a recommendation that highlights the main findings is a real treat!

26.09.2025 08:10 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

And here is an updated version of this opinion paper:
doi.org/10.31234/osf... 📝

09.09.2025 19:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

These results reopen the debate. I suggest the idea of a dual-process model (a depictive system for imagers and a symbolic system for aphantasics) or, alternatively, a single model that is fundamentally symbolic, with the depictive dimension as an optional enrichment.

08.09.2025 09:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New findings: People with aphantasia (alteration of mental imagery) still show brain activity in visual areas. Recent 7T fMRI studies decoded activity in V1-V3 in aphantasics from perception and residual imagined movements.

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The classic debate of mental imagery: Are mental images picture-like (Kosslyn) or abstract/symbolic (Pylyshyn)? Pearson and Kosslyn (2015) suggested that advances in neuroimaging studies closed the debate, supporting the depictive, picture-like, theory.

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I suggest to revisit the Mental Imagery debate with new evidence from aphantasia and neuroimaging.

Please find my opinion paper here:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Feel free to comment on it.

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Exclusive: retraction-prone editors identified at megajournal PLoS ONE Study says small editor group handled many problematic manuscripts — and a Nature investigation finds out who they are.

Nearly one-third of all retracted papers at PLoS ONE can be traced back to just 45 researchers who served as editors at the journal

go.nature.com/3UITVts

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