ArticleFrontiers in psychology2023
Diversity of aphantasia revealed by multiple assessments of visual imagery, multisensory imagery, and cognitive style.
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- "The Giant Black Elephant with white Tusks stood in a field of Green Grass": Cognitive and brain mechanisms underlying aphantasia.Consciousness and cognition · 2025Pooled it
- Do you see what I see? Linking involuntary nonretinal (phantom) vision and mental imagery in aphantasia.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Motor imagery in individuals with congenital aphantasia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Aesthetic experiences across visual perception and mental imagery: Behaviorally indistinguishable, neurally distinct.iScience · 2025Article
- Beyond self-report: Measuring visual, auditory, and tactile mental imagery using a mental comparison task.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- A Systematic Review of Aphantasia: Concept, Measurement, Neural Basis, and Theory Development.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors or inhibitory feedback?Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Aphantasia-a condition wherein individuals have a reduced or absent construction of voluntary visual imagery-is diagnosed using either the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ) or self-identification. However, a significant discrepancy exists between the proportions of aphantasia in the populations assessed using these two criteria. It is unclear why the reported proportions differ excessively and what percentage of people cannot form visual imagery. We investigated the replicability of the proportion of people with aphantasia using both criteria in the same population of participants. Therefore, we explored the potential causes of the discrepancy and characteristics of putative aphantasia in terms of multisensory imagery, cognitive style, and face recognition ability. First, we conducted an online sampling study (Study 1:
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