Blind Mind's Eye
Zeman, A
Date: 30 April 2021
Journal
American Scientist Magazine
Publisher
Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Honor Society
Publisher DOI
Abstract
A condition called aphantasia affects 1 to
3 percent of the population. Aphantasics lack
the ability to visualize imagery—a term that
includes all the senses, not just sight.
A survey about imagery vividness from
1880 was the first to document the condition,
but it remained a little-studied phenomenon
until the past few ...
A condition called aphantasia affects 1 to
3 percent of the population. Aphantasics lack
the ability to visualize imagery—a term that
includes all the senses, not just sight.
A survey about imagery vividness from
1880 was the first to document the condition,
but it remained a little-studied phenomenon
until the past few decades.
Aphantasia does not imply a lack of imagination, which indicates that the brain has a
wide range of methods for cognitive representation, some more abstract than experiential.
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