aphantasia
Americannoun
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Prof Zeman says 17,000 people have contacted him in the past decade, with experiences of aphantasia and hyperphantasia.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2024
The study involved 14 people with aphantasia and 16 control subjects.
From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2024
When people visualize dark and light objects, their pupils dilate—unless they happen to have aphantasia.
From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2023
But Dr. Segerman has aphantasia, an inability to construct mental pictures, or “visually hallucinate images at will,” as he puts it.
From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2023
Williams says he learned early in the directorial process that he lives with aphantasia, an inability to visualize mental images in one’s mind.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2022
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