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Mental imagery training - How well does this work? Why a verbal description? To stabilize the mental image through its verbal "specification"? If so, The vOICe soundscapes can likely fulfill that same purpose more generally https://photographyinsider.info/image-

How to See Bright, Vivid Images in Your Mind's Eye
Learn to improve the brightness and clarity of images in your mind's eye. Image Streaming is an easy technique to learn. Is it a cure for aphantasia?

Explicit and implicit motor simulations are impaired in individuals with #aphantasia https://academic.oup.com/braincomms/article/6/2/fcae072/7632431 mental imagery

Explicit and implicit motor simulations are impaired in individuals with aphantasia
Dupont et al. studied aphantasic individuals who were unable or struggled to generate mental visual images. They questioned whether this inability extended

@… Back when a previous me did psychic readings, I "saw" the same kind of thought/text pictures and memory icons in other people that I experience in my own #aphantasia world. Amazing to consider whether people with a vivid "mind's eye" mi…

Fascinating research: Hippocampal-occipital connectivity reflects autobiographical memory deficits in aphantasia
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.11.552915v1

#Aphantasia and involuntary imagery https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053810024000461 To what extent are afterimages (in)voluntary? "…

#Aphantasia and involuntary imagery https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053810024000461 To what extent are afterimages (in)voluntary? "…

No clear evidence of a difference between individuals who self-report an absence of auditory imagery and typical imagers on auditory imagery tasks https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0300219

No clear evidence of a difference between individuals who self-report an absence of auditory imagery and typical imagers on auditory imagery tasks
Aphantasia is characterised by the inability to create mental images in one’s mind. Studies investigating impairments in imagery typically focus on the visual domain. However, it is possible to generate many different forms of imagery including imagined auditory, kinesthetic, tactile, motor, taste and other experiences. Recent studies show that individuals with aphantasia report a lack of imagery in modalities, other than vision, including audition. However, to date, no research has examined …

Deep #aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors or inhibitory feedback? https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.33…

Frontiers | Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors or inhibitory feedback?
The authors are both self-described congenital aphantasics, who feel they have never been able to have volitional imagined visual experiences during their wa...

#Aphantasia and #hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes https://www.cell.com/trends/co…

Slower but more accurate mental rotation performance in #aphantasia linked to differences in cognitive strategies https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810024…