Imagine a world where up to 4% of people can't create mental images. That's the reality of aphantasia, a fascinating variation in human cognition discovered in 2015. Aphantasia …

The idea of aphantasia was popularised on social media in 2020, through posts which asked the reader to imagine a red apple and rate their "mind's eye" depiction of it on a scale from 1 (photographic visualisation) through to 5 (no visualisation at all).

Aphantasia is when your brain doesn’t form or use mental images as part of your thinking or imagination. Experts don’t define aphantasia as a medical condition, disorder or disability. Instead, it’s a characteristic, much like which hand you naturally use to write. Available research indicates it’s simply a difference in how your mind works.

2021年6月21日 · When aphantasia was named and publicised, a number of creative practitioners – artists, designers and architects – contacted the researchers to say that they too had no “mind’s eye”. Intrigued by...

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2024年11月27日 · Aphantasia is the inability to voluntarily visualize mental images. People with aphantasia cannot create pictures, sounds, or sensory details in their minds, even when prompted to imagine specific scenarios.

2024年3月27日 · The research reveals aphantasia’s diverse impact, from reduced autobiographical memory and face recognition to broader implications in music imagination and occupation choices, suggesting a spectrum rather than a binary condition.

Aphantasia is the inability to form mental images; a person without a mind’s eye cannot imagine the scene of a sandy beach, for example. They cannot visualize people, places, objects, or other...

2025年1月10日 · Most people will conjure up a vivid image of the fruit, but for the roughly one in 100 individuals with aphantasia, nothing will appear in the mind’s eye at all. Now, scientists have discovered that in people with this inability to form mental images, visual processing areas of the brain still light up when they try to do so.

2024年5月20日 · Aphantasia is a phenomenon in which people are unable to visualize imagery. While most people are able to conjure an image of a scene, object, or face in their minds, people with aphantasia cannot.