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Aphantasia: In search of a theory [PDF]
Mind & Language, 2022 Though researchers working on congenital aphantasia (henceforth “aphantasia”) agree that this condition involves an impairment in the ability to voluntarily generate visual imagery, disagreement looms large as to which other impairments are exhibited by aphantasic subjects.
Andrea Blomkvist +2 more
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Motor imagery in individuals with congenital aphantasia [PDF]
Scientific ReportsIndividuals who experience aphantasia have an inability to create sensory mental images, what lead to a range of cognitive and behavioral differences compared to the general population.
Robert Kwaśniak +3 more
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Trends in Cognitive SciencesIntroducing the term aphantasia was very helpful in raising awareness of interpersonal variations in the vividness of mental imagery. But taking aphantasia to be a monolithic category can do more harm than good.
Nanay, Bence
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Aphantasia and the Language of Imagination: A Wittgensteinian Exploration [PDF]
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2021 Congenital aphantasia, or the complete absence of mental imagery, is a topic that has recently aroused the interest of researchers in many fields including philosophy, psychology and cognitive sciences.
Mélissa Fox-Muraton
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, 2022 In a series of four studies, relationships between subjective and objective measurements of mental imagery vividness and use were examined for participants with developmental aphantasia compared to control participants. Study 1 reports demographic differences and results from subjective measurements of mental imagery.
Toftness, Alexander
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Cogent PsychologyAphantasia, the inability to form voluntary sensory imagery, is a newly emerging field. While quantitative evidence regarding the prevalence and profile of aphantasia is increasing, few studies have sought to understand in-depth the perspectives of those
Zoë Pounder +3 more
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Mental imagery through the lens of aphantasia [PDF]
Mind &Language, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 317-324, June 2025.In his recent book Mental imagery: Philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, Nanay presents a far‐reaching empirically grounded account of mental imagery. This commentary focuses on Nanay's proposal that individuals with aphantasia, a cognitive norm variant characterized by an absence of imagery experience, have unconscious mental imagery. Recent empirical
Christian O. Scholz
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Neuroscience ResearchThe inability to visualise was given the name aphantasia in 2015 by Zeman and colleagues. In 2018 we published research showing that fifteen individuals who self-identified as having aphantasia also demonstrated a lack of sensory visual imagery when ...
Joel Pearson, Rebecca Keogh
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Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors or inhibitory feedback? [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThe authors are both self-described congenital aphantasics, who feel they have never been able to have volitional imagined visual experiences during their waking lives.
Loren N. Bouyer, Derek H. Arnold
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Neuroradiological Insights into Visual Mental Imagery: Structural and Functional Imaging of Ventral and Dorsal Streams [PDF]
Brain SciencesVisual mental imagery, the ability to generate and manipulate internal visual experiences without direct sensory input, links perception with memory, planning, and higher cognition. In this targeted narrative review, we synthesize neuroimaging and lesion
Saleha Redžepi +3 more
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