I wonder if there could be connection given the maleability of the brain. For amblyopic individuals, the brain will have developed pathways to deal with the different set of information that will reach their brain and still make sense of the outside world, for example regarding the use of depth cues that might not be available to amplyopics to the same level as others. Could the different pathways that aphantasia creates also be helpful to deal with some of the consequences of being amplyopic?