Lives without imagery – Congenital aphantasia
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Certain individuals lack the ability to visualise altogether, a condition termed aphantasia.
“certain individuals lack the ability to visualise altogether – a condition recently termed “aphantasia”9.”
From A cognitive profile of multi-sensory imagery, memory and dreaming in aphantasia (2020) · cites this paper as [9]
These 21 individuals had 'never' been able to visualise.
“with the difference that they had ‘never’ been able to visualise”
From Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes (2024) · cites this paper as [2]
Ten of 21 individuals first described with aphantasia reported that imagery in 'all' sensory modalities was absent or faint.
“Ten of 21 individuals first described with aphantasia reported that imagery in ‘all’ sensory modalities was absent or faint [2”
From Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes (2024) · cites this paper as [2]
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- Authors
- Zeman, A., Dewar, M., & Della Sala, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Exeter (GB)
- Heriot-Watt University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Zeman, Adam
- Venue
- Cortex
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-12
- Volume
- 73
- Pages
- 378-380
- ISSN
- 0010-9452 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2211964365
- Cited by
- 621
- References
- 13
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- FWCI
- 11.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- Locations
- Cortex (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion)
- Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Keywords
- mental imagery, visual imagery
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Imagination, Surveys and Questionnaires, Task Performance and Analysis, Imagery, Psychotherapy
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