Tootfinder

@… If my imagined memory of information about apples includes a text-size emoji, does that count as visualization? It certainly doesn't seem anywhere near what my eyes would see of a real apple.
#Aphantasia

Simulation in the 'blind' mind: Examining unconscious mental imagery in #aphantasia https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393225001538 "Mental im…

Visual mental imagery and #aphantasia lesions map onto a convergent brain network https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.23.25328072v1 by @…

Visual Mental Imagery and Aphantasia Lesions Map onto a Convergent Brain Network
Background Visual mental imagery, the ability to volitionally form perceptual representations without corresponding external stimuli, allows reliving of past events, solving problems and imagining the future. The absence of visual mental imagery, called aphantasia, has recently been recognized to occur in about 1% of the general population but the cause is uncertain. By studying rare cases of acquired aphantasia we can identify regions that when injured cause loss of visual mental imagery. Met…

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I relate to your description of #aphantasia. So much of what I see, even in the "real world" has always been like an object in a CAD program. My sense of the object size and orientation was based on the object features, not its relationship to m…