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The Transition Zone

February 12, 20221 min readByJohn Poparad
Memory
"NEW MAP OF MEANING IN THE BRAIN CHANGES IDEAS ABOUT MEMORY"
This article https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-map-of-meaning-in-the-brain-changes-ideas-about-memory-20220208/
Talks about memory BUT it really states that "language-based representations are partly patterned off of perceptual ones — and this alignment serves as part of a mechanism for how that might happen."
It would be very valuable if the authors tested aphantasics the same way. It could well be the difference here are what is the "going on"

The Transition Zone

February 12, 20221 min readByJohn Poparad
Memory
"NEW MAP OF MEANING IN THE BRAIN CHANGES IDEAS ABOUT MEMORY"
This article https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-map-of-meaning-in-the-brain-changes-ideas-about-memory-20220208/
Talks about memory BUT it really states that "language-based representations are partly patterned off of perceptual ones — and this alignment serves as part of a mechanism for how that might happen."
It would be very valuable if the authors tested aphantasics the same way. It could well be the difference here are what is the "going on"
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