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11/06/2025

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Scientists have uncovered how the brains of people with aphantasia, those who cannot visualize mental images, process visual information differently.

29/01/2025

https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/people-who-cant-see-with-their-minds-eye-have-different-wiring-in-the-brain

People with aphantasia still generate brain activity when attempting to visualize, but that image may be getting lost in translation, a new study suggests.

17/09/2024

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-mind-blind-harder.html

Picture the sun setting over the ocean.

08/08/2024

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-12-mental-picture-aphantasia-mind-eye.html

If you were asked to draw a picture of your grandparents' living room from memory, could you do it? For most people, certain details are easy to visualize: "There's a piano in the corner, a palm by the window and two seashells on the coffee table."

09/07/2024

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-spooked-halloween-ghost-stories-aphantasia.html

Halloween movies often feature kids sitting around a campfire sharing gory, spooky stories, trying to get someone to scream in fear.

13/06/2024

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-03-people-mind-harder.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3gC7hXQsGmP78T_4n85m-t2iAdAyfIb5LmVP58UvN0rXg1bt78bj5UE9U_aem_AZFRAP7Ek2t9Axr7d61CckP1wnkRXTVaN0Pqw0KpBUYkXPvCsn1Qj9ODI-BYd2VjC2DJS6DQiO83YpU-wNq_Qijf

People with aphantasia—that is, the inability to visualize mental images—are harder to spook with scary stories, a new UNSW Sydney study shows.

10/04/2024

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-autobiographical-memory-aphantasia.html

People with aphantasia lack visual imagination. Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) investigated how the lack of mental imagery affects long-term memory.

29/03/2024

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-decade-aphantasia-weve-people-visualize.html

People who can't visualize an image in their mind's eye are less likely to remember the details of important past personal events or to recognize faces, according to a review of nearly 10 years of research.

03/03/2024

https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2024/feb/26/what-is-aphantasia-like

People with aphantasia can’t mentally visualize things. Mental imagery is a spectrum, and we lie outside it, in the dark

13/11/2023

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010945220304317

Congenital aphantasia is a recently characterized variation of experience defined by the inability to form voluntary visual imagery, in individuals wh…

22/08/2023

https://mediaindia.eu/society/aphantasia-when-minds-eye-goes-blind/

Harry Potter fans may remember a scene from Harry potter and the prisoner of Azkaban when Professor Remus Lupin tells Harry to visualise ‘happy memories’

28/03/2023

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