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Papers about aphantasia and mental imagery, with summaries in plain words. The summaries are generated by AI and may contain errors.
Baade and colleagues · Chemistry Education Research and Practice
Students who reported more vivid spatial imagery answered more stereochemistry questions correctly, while visual imagery vividness showed no such link. This suggests visual vividness alone does not capture the imagery these tasks draw on.
Baade and colleagues · Chemistry Education Research and Practice
In a small study at an Australian university, 18 first-year chemistry students did timed tasks with chemistry pictures and 3D rotation puzzles and rated how vivid their imagery was in several senses; seven were interviewed a year later. How vividly students could picture things did not predict how well they solved the spatial tasks. The only interviewee with weak visual imagery described "impressions" and a running description in words instead of pictures, and solved the rotation puzzles with a verbal method. The authors call the results preliminary because so few students took part.
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