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          FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience
          ·September 8, 2023·6 min read

          Unlocking Aphantasia – The Mysterious Spectrum of Mind’s Visualization

          Visualization abilities range from hyperphantasia, where individuals can create vivid mental images, to aphantasia, where people experience a complete absence of visual imagery. A study assessed the link between perception and mental imagery in individuals across this spectrum.
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          ·March 3, 2023·5 min read

          Imagination Is a Spectrum, and 1% Of People Can’t Mentally Visualize Things at All

          1% of the population experience aphantasia, or mind-blindness, which is an inability to visualize concepts or thoughts in their imagination. Researchers investigate this phenomenon and offer explanations as to how this may occur.
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          FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience
          ·April 20, 2022·6 min read

          Windows to the Soul: Pupils Reveal ‘Aphantasia’ – The Absence of Visual Imagination

          People who experience visual imagination have pupillary responses that optimize the amount of light hitting the retina and change in response to imagined items. This pupillary response does not occur in those with aphantasia.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychologyVisual Neuroscience
          ·October 29, 2021·5 min read

          Not Spooked by Halloween Ghost Stories? You May Have Aphantasia

          Do you experience difficulties conjuring up visual images in your mind while listening to spooky stories? You may have aphantasia, researchers report.
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          FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience
          ·June 26, 2021·4 min read

          Pseudo-Hallucinations: Why Some People See More Vivid Mental Images Than Others – Test Yourself Here

          Study reveals people who experience intense visual imagery during a Ganzflicker test have naturally lower frequency rhythms in the visual cortex, making them more susceptible to pseudo-hallucinations.
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          FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience
          ·June 13, 2021·4 min read

          Aphantasia Explained: Some People Can’t Form Mental Pictures

          Aphantasia is marked by the inability to generate visual images in the mind's eye. Researchers explore the neurobiological basis for the disorder.
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          FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience
          ·June 9, 2021·3 min read

          Brain Connections Mean Some People Lack Visual Imagery

          People with hyperphantasia, the ability to visualize vividly, have stronger connections between their visual brain network and decision-making networks. By contrast, those with aphantasia, an inability to visualize, have weaker connections between the brain regions.
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          ·March 10, 2021·6 min read

          I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts: People With Mind-Blindness Not So Easily Spooked

          Horror writers may have a hard time attracting those with aphantasia to read their spooky stories. A new study reveals those with aphantasia, a disorder marked by an inability to visualize mental imagery, have a hard time getting spooked by creepy stories. Findings suggest mental imagery may have a closer link to emotional processing and expression than previously believed.
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          FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience
          ·December 27, 2020·6 min read

          Can’t Draw a Mental Picture? Aphantasia Causes Blind Spots in the Mind’s Eye

          While people with aphantasia lack visual imagery ability, they have intact spatial memory. Findings suggest mental imagery recall and spatial memory may be stored differently in the brain.
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          FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience
          ·June 22, 2020·5 min read

          Being ‘mind-blind’ may make remembering, dreaming and imagining harder

          Aphantasia, a disorder in which people are lack the ability to mentally visualize imagery, is also associated with a widespread pattern of changes to other important cognitive processes. Many with aphantasia report a reduced ability to recall past events, imagine the future, and dream.
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          FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience
          ·May 6, 2020·6 min read

          How strong is your mental imagery? It might depend on how ‘excitable’ your neurons are

          The strength of a person's mental imagery is associated with excitability in the prefrontal cortex and visual cortex. Highly excitable neurons in the visual cortex may reduce a person's ability to imagine mental images. The findings shed light on how aphantasia, a condition where a person can not imaging mental images, may occur.
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          ·June 25, 2018·2 min read

          Neuroimaging Study to Shed Light on Mind Blindness

          Researchers are planning to conduct a new neuroimaging study to investigate why some people are unable to create visual images in their imagination.
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