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Autism and Aphantasia

open access: yesConsciousness and Cognition
Aphantasia is characterised by an inability to have volitional imagined sensations. While initially characterised as an inability to visualise, Aphantasia is now regarded as having a multisensory profile, that can manifest in inabilities to have imagined sensations of sound, smell, taste, touch and of bodily sensations.
Arnold, Derek H.   +4 more
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Mental imagery, predictive processing, aphantasia, and the interaction between philosophy and cognitive science: Responses to Amy Kind, Christian Scholz, and Neil Van Leeuwen

open access: yesMind &Language, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 333-340, June 2025.
This is the author's response in the book symposium on Bence Nanay's Mental imagery: Philosophy, psychology, neuroscience (Oxford University Press, 2023), focusing, among other questions, on aphantasia, the relation between mental imagery and predictive processing, and the collaborative endeavor between philosophy and the cognitive sciences.
Bence Nanay
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Imagining Someone Else Experience a Negative Autobiographical Memory on Phenomenological Experience

open access: yesApplied Cognitive Psychology, Volume 39, Issue 3, May/June 2025.
ABSTRACT We investigated whether the phenomenological experience of a negative autobiographical memory changes when the self is presumably distanced from it. In session 1, participants described and phenomenologically rated an important negative event.
Ceren Dönerkayalı, Simay Ikier
wiley   +1 more source

A search for justice using AI-assisted image creation

open access: yesInternational Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work
As artificial intelligence becomes pervasive, therapists might be left wondering about its implications for narrative practice. This paper explores an unexpected discovery about the power of artificial intelligence in re-imagining a story of injustice.
Lucy Van Sambeek
doaj   +1 more source

Decoding Wine Appreciation in Italy: The Role of Vivid Imagery

open access: yesJournal of Sensory Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, April 2025.
ABSTRACT The Vividness of Wine Imagery Questionnaire (VWIQ) has been adapted and validated for the Italian context, measuring the vividness of wine imagery in sight, smell, flavor, and mouthfeel. This tool helps understand how imagery ability influences consumer behavior, particularly in wine selection. The Italian adaptation allows for better insights
Alessandro Bortolotti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pre‐stimulus activities affect subsequent visual processing: Empirical evidence and potential neural mechanisms

open access: yesBrain and Behavior, Volume 15, Issue 2, February 2025.
Abstract Purpose Humans obtain most of their information from visual stimuli. The perception of these stimuli may be modulated by the ongoing pre‐stimulus brain activities. Depending on the task design, the processing of different cognitive functions such as spatial attention, feature‐based attention, temporal attention, arousal, and mental imagery may
Narjes Soltani Dehaghani, Mojtaba Zarei
wiley   +1 more source

Aphantasia and the unconscious imagery hypothesis

open access: yesConsciousness and Cognition
Until recently, mental imagery has largely been regarded as an exclusively conscious phenomenon. However, recent empirical results suggest that mental imagery can also occur unconsciously. People who report having no experiences of mental imagery often perform similar to controls on behavioural tasks thought to require imagery.
Andy Mckilliam, Manuela Kirberg
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The Experience of Music in Aphantasia: Emotion, Reward, and Everyday Functions

open access: yesMusic & Science
Visual imagery has been proposed to be one of eight mechanisms by which music induces emotion in listeners. Initial research into aphantasia, a condition referring to individuals who do not (or only minimally) form visual imagery in their mind's eye ...
Sarah Hashim   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Aphantasia and spatial navigation

open access: yes
In this study, we examine spatial navigation ability in aphantasia and verify whether Developmental Topographical Disorientation is more frequent in aphantasia, compared to the general ...
Ineke van der Ham
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Some thoughts on “inner speech” and its absence: endophasia and anendophasia

open access: yesAdvances in Clinical Neuroscience & Rehabilitation
This article explores the notion of “endophasia”, understood as “inner speech” or “inner speaking”, hence distinct from auditory hallucinations, and its possible absence, “anendophasia”.
Andrew J Larner
doaj   +1 more source

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