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A decade of aphantasia research: what we’ve learned about people who can’t visualise - News

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People who can’t visualise an image in their mind’s eye are less likely to remember the details of important past personal events or to recognise faces, according to a review of nearly ten years of research. People who cannot bring to mind visual imagery are also less likely to experience imagery of other kinds, like imagining music, according to new research by the academic who first discovered the phenomenon. Professor Adam Zeman, of the University of Exeter, first coined the term aphantasia in 2015, to describe those who can’t visualise. Since then, tens of thousands of people worldwide have identified with the description. Many say they knew they processed information differently to others, but were unable to describe how. Some of them expressed shock on discovering that other people can conjure up an image in their mind’s eye. Now, Professor Zeman has conducted a review of around 50 recent studies, published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, to summarise findings in a field that ha

People who can’t visualise an image in their mind’s eye are less likely to remember the details of important past personal events or to recognise faces, according to a review of nearly ten years of research. People who cannot bring to mind visual imagery are also less likely to experience imagery of other kinds, like imagining music, according to new research by the academic who first discovered the phenomenon. Professor Adam Zeman, of the University of Exeter, first coined the term aphantasia in 2015, to describe those who can’t visualise. Since then, tens of thousands of people worldwide hav

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