Many people have no mental imagery. What's going on in their brains?
People with aphantasia are offering a window into consciousness.
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Although scientists have known for more than a century that mental
imagery varies between people, the topic received a surge of attention
when, a decade ago, an influential paper coined the term aphantasia to describe the experience of people with no mental imagery
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Since then, aphantasia has shot into the canon of unusual phenomena
that are invaluable for studying how the mind works. Like synaesthesia
(in which people's senses are connected in exceptional ways, so they
hear colours, for example) and prosopagnosia (also known as face
blindness), aphantasia has opened many new research avenues.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00311-7
Music, mostly.
Although scientists have known for more than a century that mental
imagery varies between people, the topic received a surge of attention when, a decade ago, an influential paper coined the term aphantasia to describe the experience of people with no mental imagery
Music, mostly. I donrCOt have much inner dialogue or anything but I hear music nearly constantly and fairly vividly.
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