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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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          ·January 11, 2018·5 min read

          Blind in the Mind: Why Some People Can’t See Pictures in their Imagination

          Researchers report on why some people experience aphantasia, the inability to imagine in images.
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          ·August 27, 2015·5 min read

          Have Trouble Visualizing Images? You May Have Aphantasia

          Do you have a problem visualizing images? According to researchers, you could have a newly defined condition called aphantasia.
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