Have you ever heard of aphantasia?
People with this condition – the inability to visualise mental images – are harder to spook with scary stories, a new study shows.
The study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, tested how aphantasic people reacted to reading distressing scenarios, like being chased by a shark, falling off a cliff, or being in a plane that s about to crash.
As many as five percent of us may have the condition but the problem is there s still so much to learn about its myriad of forms.
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