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.
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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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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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No clear evidence of a difference between individuals who self-report an absence of auditory imagery and typical imagers on auditory imagery tasks. [PDF]
PLoS ONEAphantasia is characterised by the inability to create mental images in one's mind. Studies investigating impairments in imagery typically focus on the visual domain.
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Anauralia: The Silent Mind and Its Association With Aphantasia
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Auditory and visual imagery were studied in a sample of 128 participants, including 34 self-reported aphantasics. Auditory imagery (Bucknell Auditory Imagery Scale-Vividness, BAIS-V) and visual imagery (Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire-Modified,
Anthony Lambert
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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
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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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Hippocampal-occipital connectivity reflects autobiographical memory deficits in aphantasia [PDF]
eLifeAphantasia refers to reduced or absent visual imagery. While most of us can readily recall decade-old personal experiences (autobiographical memories, AM) with vivid mental images, there is a dearth of information about whether the loss of visual imagery
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Shaping the Space: A Role for the Hippocampus in Mental Imagery Formation [PDF]
VisionMental imagery is claimed to underlie a host of abilities, such as episodic memory, working memory, and decision-making. A popular view holds that mental imagery relies on the perceptual system and that it can be said to be ‘vision in reverse’.
Andrea Blomkvist
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Exploring the association between mental imagery, sensory sensitivity, and autistic traits in autistic and non-autistic adults [PDF]
Scientific ReportsMental imagery vividness varies between individuals. Low levels of mental imagery have been associated with high levels of autistic traits, whilst autistic traits are known to positively correlate with sensory sensitivities. This would predict a negative
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