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.
Zoë Pounder +3 more
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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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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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Multisensory subtypes of aphantasia: Mental imagery as supramodal perception in reverse
Neuroscience ResearchCognitive neuroscience research on mental imagery has largely focused on the visual imagery modality in unimodal task contexts. Recent studies have uncovered striking individual differences in visual imagery capacity, with some individuals reporting a ...
Joel Pearson, Rebecca Keogh
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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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Imagination, Creativity, and Aphantasia [PDF]
Abstract Abstract This chapter focuses on the role of the imagination in creativity, using aphantasia as a case study. It first distinguishes between imagination and mental imagery, before giving an overview of what we know about aphantasia to date, focusing in particular on findings pertaining to creativity ...
Blomkvist, Andrea
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A dataset of text prompts, videos and video quality metrics from generative text-to-video AI models [PDF]
Data in BriefEvaluating the quality of videos which have been automatically generated from text-to-video (T2V) models is important if the models are to produce plausible outputs that convince a viewer of their authenticity.
Iya Chivileva +3 more
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Neurodiversity in mental simulation: conceptual but not visual imagery priming modulates perception across the imagery vividness spectrum [PDF]
Scientific ReportsMental simulation—the ability to internally model sensory, conceptual, or future events—may include mental imagery as a component, with considerable individual variability in its vividness and dependence on sensory detail.
Ágnes Welker +5 more
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Aphantasia, the inability to voluntarily generate mental imagery, is typically explained as a failure to reactivate perceptual representations. Here, we propose an alternative framework: aphantasia as an impairment in disengaging from external perceptual processing.
Merlin Monzel, Reshanne R Reeder
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NoûsAbstract How is it that individuals who deny experiencing visual imagery nonetheless perform normally on tasks which seem to require it? This puzzle of aphantasia has perplexed philosophers and scientists since the late nineteenth century.
Phillips, Ian
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