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Wendy Zuckerman (Science Vs host) / Radiolab clips narrator (also uses Radiolab voices)

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295 total appearances

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Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye

Basically, you put on these sort of like VR goggles that give each eye a different image.

Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye

So let's say your left eye gets a green square and your right eye gets a red circle.

Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye

Wait, okay, so each eye only gets one of those?

Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye

Yeah, exactly.

Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye

Each eye can't see what's going on in the other eye.

Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye

Okay, got it.

Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye

And, you know, typically when you're just looking around at things, like your eyes are getting slightly different images.

Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye

Your brain just sort of like randomly switches between the two.

Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye

It's like green square, red circle.

Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye

Green square, red circle.

Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye

Huh.

Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye

Before he turns on like the images in the goggles, he's like, okay, let me just imagine a green square.

Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye

And then he turns it on.

Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye

I was like, huh, I saw the thing that I imagined.

Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye

Joel only sees the green square.

Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye

Whoa.

Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye

It's like just imagining the red circle made his brain actually choose to show him that one.

Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye

Like what he thought actually changed what he saw.

Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye

If someone like me does it.

Science Vs
Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye

My mind doesn't linger on the imagined object.