Joel Pearson

This study shows that the pupillary light response correlates with sensory imagery strength and is absent in aphantasia, providing physiological validation of the condition.

The paper identifies functional harmonic modes as a governing principle for brain organization, showing they can reconstruct task-related activity and delineate cortical areas from resting-state fMRI data.

This study uses fMRI and MVPA to show that suppressed thoughts remain decodable in brain regions despite individuals reporting they are not thinking about them.

The paper shows that lower excitability in early visual cortex predicts stronger mental imagery and that reducing excitability increases imagery strength.

This study investigates the effects of voluntary and involuntary visual phantom color on binocular rivalry perception, finding additive suppressive and facilitative effects.

The paper tests the role of mental imagery in emotion using aphantasia, finding that individuals without visual imagery show reduced physiological responses to frightening written scenarios.

This paper investigates thought control strategies using binocular rivalry, finding that suppression fails while substitution is more effective, with implications for mindfulness and mental health.

This paper introduces harmonic brain modes as a framework linking spatial and temporal brain dynamics across different mental states.

The paper decodes thought content from neural activity patterns up to 11 seconds before conscious awareness, showing nonconscious influences on thought generation.