479 | Black Paint on a Black Canvas

Hosts Anthony Cruz and Meghan Voll are joined by Emiko Muraki, a PhD candidate with the University of Calgary, and a visiting PhD student at Western University. Emiko studies how context and differences between people affect how we learn and use concepts, and understand language. She also studied people with aphantasia, who can't form mental images, and found that they may still engage in sensorimotor simulation during semantic processing, even if they lack conscious, voluntary imagery.     Recorded on October 8, 2024. Produced by Bruno Mesquita. Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ (Produced by White Hot).