Research library
Papers about aphantasia and mental imagery, with summaries in plain words. The summaries are generated by AI and may contain errors.
Thorudottir, Asgeirsson and Sigurdardottir
In this preprint, which had not been peer reviewed, 55 adults in Iceland tried to reproduce the exact colors of everyday objects seen a moment earlier or earlier in a long series, and matched colors shown on screen. How vividly people said they could picture things did not predict how precisely they remembered colors. In interviews, most people, whatever their imagery, said they named the colors to themselves in the short memory task, and in the longer task those who used words were more precise. Only nine participants had aphantasia, one of them with no imagery at all.
Want to take part? See the studies you can join.
Running a study? We can help you recruit participants.