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Aphantasia (/ˌeɪfænˈteɪʒə/ ⓘ AY-fan-TAY-zhə, /ˌæfænˈteɪʒə/ AF-an-TAY-zhə) is the inability to voluntarily visualize mental images.[1] The phenomenon was first described by Francis Galton in 1880,[2] but it has remained relatively unstudied. Interest in the phenomenon was renewed after the publication of a study in 2015 by a team led by the neurologist Adam Zeman of the University of Exeter.[3] Zeman's team coined the term aphantasia,[4] derived from the ancient Greek word phantasia (φαντασία), which means 'appearance/image', and the prefix a- (ἀ-), which means 'without'.[5] People with aphantasia are called aphantasics,[6] or less commonly aphants[7] or aphantasiacs.[8] Aphantasia can be considered the opposite of hyperphantasia, the condition of having extremely vivid mental imagery.[9][10] The phenomenon was first described by Francis Galton in 1880, in a statistical study on mental imagery.[2] Galton wrote: To my astonishment, I found that the great majority of the men of science to

Aphantasia - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Inability to picture something in one's mind Not to be confused with Aphasia , the inability to formulate language. A representation of how people with differing visualization abilities might picture an apple in their mind. The first image is bright and photographic, levels 2 through 4 show increasingly simpler and more faded images, and the last—representing complete aphantasia—shows no image at all. Aphantasia ( / ˌ eɪ f æ n ˈ t eɪ ʒ ə / ⓘ AY -fan- TAY -zhə , / ˌ æ f æ n ˈ t eɪ ʒ ə / AF -an- TAY -zhə ) is the inabil

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