The ability to visualize faces, objects, landscapes, or even scenes from the past exists on a spectrum. While some can picture the layout of a city in minute detail and mentally walk through it, street by street, others have a perfectly blank internal cinema.
Probing The Unimaginable: New Data Help To Understand Nature Of Aphantasia
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Unraveling Aphantasia: New Data Sheds Light on Mystery
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Probing the unimaginable: New data help to understand the nature of aphantasia
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“Think of a white sandy beach on a paradise island. Can you see it?” The ability to visualize a place, object, or place on request varies significantly between individuals. But some people cannot conjure up mental images at all: this trait is known as aphantasia, literally “a defect of imagination.” Aphantasia is not a disorder of the mind but an astonishing cognitive peculiarity that could help us understand how visual mental imagery works. At Paris Brain Institute, Jianghao Liu and Paolo Bartolomeo (Inserm) have shown that people with aphantasia have characteristics that can be described objectively: they are slower than average at processing visual information and have difficulty absorbing it. These observations are described in a recent study published in the journal Cortex.