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Re:Our Visual Imagination Is Severely Limited by taneq on Monday December 25, 2017 @11:34PM (#16007093)
And likewise with the fact that a surprising number of people have 'aphantasia' and cannot visually imagine things at all. Humans obviously have a highly variable capacity for visualisation.

TFA also seems to conflate "imagining a scene containing a combination of objects" with "imagining an assortment of randomly oriented Gabor patches", which I don't think follows at all. You can't just disregard the semantic content of what's being imagined. It's like saying humans can't recall sentences containing 50 characters because they can't recite a string of 50 random letters.

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Re:Our Visual Imagination Is Severely Limited by SubiculumCode on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @12:03AM (#16007171)
It is well known that semantic groupings increase memory or working memory capacity. The author alluded to that. The Gabor patches are probably used in part because semantic strategies are more difficult to use and gain from using those stimuli.
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