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Seeing through the static: Reduced imagery vividness in aphantasia is associated with impaired temporal lobe signal complexity

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Task evoked EEG reveals neural processing differences in aphantasia

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The Misguided Veneration of Averageness in Clinical Neuroscience: A Call to Value Diversity over Typicality

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Variants in Imagery Rescripting for OCD: Memories Versus Future, Attachment Versus Mastery

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Why indecisive trials matter: Improving the binocular rivalry imagery priming score for the assessment of aphantasia

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Imaginal extinction without imagery: Dissociating the effects of visual imagery and propositional thought by contrasting participants with aphantasia, simulated aphantasia, and controls

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Mental imagery: The role of primary visual cortex in aphantasia

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Three mechanisms of language comprehension are revealed through cluster analysis of individuals with language deficits

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The neural underpinnings of aphantasia: a case study of identical twins

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The role of mental imagery in worry: Insights from aphantasia

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The role of the motor system in action imagination and comprehension

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Motor imagery in individuals with congenital aphantasia

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Mental Images from Long-Term Memory Differ from Perception: Evidence for Distinct Spatial Formats and Distinct Mechanisms of Spatial Attention Orientation

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The Virtual Reality in Your Head: How Immersion and Mental Imagery Are Connected to Knowledge Retention

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The impact of mental images on reasoning: A study on aphantasia

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Language evolution is not limited to speech acquisition: a large study of language development in children with language deficits highlights the importance of the voluntary imagination component of language

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The vividness of mental imagery in virtual reality: A study on multisensory experiences in virtual tourism

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Perspectives of stroke survivors and informal caregivers on home-based mental practice for upper limb recovery after stroke: a qualitative co-design study

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Lifting the veil: probing altered visual perception in derealization

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Imagery modulates the pupillary response, but this does not reliably index differences in imagery vividness

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Hallucinating visual structure: Individual differences in ‘scaffolded attention’

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The Relationships Between Linguistic Literacy and Geometric Thinking in 2nd-Graders

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The role of dopamine in visual imagery—An experimental pharmacological study

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Disturbances in Body-Based Mental and Motor Imagery in Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa – A Systematic Review of Experimental Studies

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Craving what you imagine: How sensory mental imagery relates to trait food craving and BMI

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Always Getting Lost: Defining Developmental Topographical Disorientation (DTD)—A Systematic Literature Review

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The effects of combined action observation and motor imagery (AO + MI) practice on motor learning: a systematic review

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Latent Profiles of Visual Imagery: Aphantasics, Mid-Range Imagers, and Hyperphantasics Experience Reading Differently

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The vividness of visualisations and autistic trait expression are not strongly associated

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Invisible variations: Associations and subtypes of visual imagery vividness extremes

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“Behind a dark curtain”: The lived experiences of aphantasia

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“I just see nothing. It’s literally just black”: a qualitative investigation into congenital aphantasia

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Multimodal mental imagery profiles and the prevalence of aphantasia and hyperphantasia in the general population

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Hypnagogic states are quite common: Self-reported prevalence, modalities, and gender differences

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Individual differences in mental imagery do not moderate the animacy advantage in memory

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Neurodiversity in mental simulation: conceptual but not visual imagery priming modulates perception across the imagery vividness spectrum

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Mental rotation is a weak measure of people’s propensity to visualise

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Probing the Imaginable: Shared and Distinct Processes Between Imagery and Perception Across Semantic Domains

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Aphantasia, hyperphantasia and sensory imagery in a multi-cultural sample

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Aphantasia, Unsymbolized Thinking and Conscious Thought

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No increase in corticospinal excitability during motor simulation provides a platform to explore the neurophysiology of aphantasia

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Objectively quantifying subjective phenomena: Measuring the flashed face distortion effect

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Imagery Agnosia and its Phenomenology

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Drawing Out Definitions

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“The Giant Black Elephant with white Tusks stood in a field of Green Grass”: Cognitive and brain mechanisms underlying aphantasia

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Challenging dual-coding theory: Picture superiority effects persist in aphantasia

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State but not trait measures of vividness relate to memory accuracy

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What is aphantasia? A conceptual articulation and empirical evaluation

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The Enigma of the Silent Mind: What Have We Learned About Anauralia?

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Aphantasia and the Mechanisms of Visual Mental Imagery

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Individuals with aphantasia show independent impairments in face perception and face memory, but not face matching

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Assessing aphantasia prevalence and the relation of self-reported imagery abilities and memory task performance

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An international estimate of the prevalence of differing visual imagery abilities

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Are you seeing this? An investigation into the variability of mental imagery and propensity of aphantasia in a non-self-diagnosed population

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How people estimate the prevalence of aphantasia and hyperphantasia in the population

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Diversity of aphantasia revealed by multiple assessments of visual imagery, multisensory imagery, and cognitive style

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