Thank you for setting out on aphantasia research. Don't be too hard on your therapist; they never learned about aphantasia in school. I wouldn't take anything you ever hear about aphantasia negatively. Personally i love even the bad stuff because its getting our name out there. I think any publicity is good publicity at this point. -- I disagree with the statement that, "aphantasics score equally on cognitive tasks that are thought to require visual imagery" however it is true that we may score equally on some of them. I also disagree with the logical relationship linking to blind sight. The patients with blind sight have brains that are processing visual queues even when the person cannot "see" them. This is not true with Aphantasia. When Aphants are asked to imagine a shark or other scary imagery, their brains do not show a fear response (unlike neurotypical people). -- Here are 2 Aphantasia Network videos that discuss imagery with Dr. Wilma Bainbridge. Both seem to be directly related to the topic of your post. The one on youtube has the participants draw pictures and you may be surprised. I looked but couldn't find the link for the video on the Aphantasia Network website, so linked the Aphantasia Network on youtube. Aphantasia Network - Quantifying Aphantasia through Drawing With Wilma Bainbridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4-9tfv1eps Aphantasia Network - Pictures Without Mental Pictures: How Aphantasia Is Rewriting a 50-Year-Old Theory of Memory https://aphantasia.com/video/pictures-without-mental-pictures

To be frank, the article is technically not wrong. Aphantasia has not been widely researched, but the current consensus is that aphantasia forces the brain to think about objects more figuratively. This meant that the complementary strategies are just to salvage whatever is remaining inside the brain, rather than actively getting the literal content.

Thank you for setting out on aphantasia research. Don't be too hard on your therapist; they never learned about aphantasia in school. I wouldn't take anything you ever hear about aphantasia negatively. Personally i love even the bad stuff because its getting our name out there. I think any publicity is good publicity at this point. -- I disagree with the statement that, "aphantasics score equally on cognitive tasks that are thought to require visual imagery" however it is true that we may score equally on some of them. I also disagree with the logical relationship linking to blind sight. The patients with blind sight have brains that are processing visual queues even when the person cannot "see" them. This is not true with Aphantasia. When Aphants are asked to imagine a shark or other scary imagery, their brains do not show a fear response (unlike neurotypical people). -- Here are 2 Aphantasia Network videos that discuss imagery with Dr. Wilma Bainbridge. Both seem to be directly related to the topic of your post. The one on youtube has the participants draw pictures and you may be surprised. I looked but couldn't find the link for the video on the Aphantasia Network website, so linked the Aphantasia Network on youtube. Aphantasia Network - Quantifying Aphantasia through Drawing With Wilma Bainbridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4-9tfv1eps Aphantasia Network - Pictures Without Mental Pictures: How Aphantasia Is Rewriting a 50-Year-Old Theory of Memory https://aphantasia.com/video/pictures-without-mental-pictures

To be frank, the article is technically not wrong. Aphantasia has not been widely researched, but the current consensus is that aphantasia forces the brain to think about objects more figuratively. This meant that the complementary strategies are just to salvage whatever is remaining inside the brain, rather than actively getting the literal content.