Responding to Adam Zeman’s excellent article in TiCS on aphantasia [1], Michel et al. [2] raise the intriguing possibility that aphantasia represents a case of access consciousness without phenomenal consciousness of mental imagery. This entails that people with aphantasia could perform tasks using mental imagery, while being unaware of doing so. Read Full Article (External […]

Traditionally considered a motor structure, the cerebellum has been shown to play a key role in several cognitive functions. However, for decades, the cerebellum has been largely overlooked and even deliberately excluded from ‘whole-brain’ neuroimaging studies. Here, we propose that the continued exclusion of the cerebellum has limited our understanding of whole-brain function. We describe […]

Abstract Speech sounds can communicate perceptual information through iconicity, or shared resemblance between sound and meaning. Prosody, which encompasses vocal characteristics such as pitch and intensity, can similarly be recruited to communicate meaning by evoking physical features of a referent. This study used English-like pseudowords to investigate whether iconicity between word form and object properties […]