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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.
Cui, Kong and Zhang · Frontiers in Psychology
Aphantasic participants showed muted neural responses and minimal autonomic changes during romantic imagery compared to those with vivid imagery. This suggests that mental imagery is a crucial driver of physiological and emotional arousal.
Azañón and colleagues · Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Researchers found no evidence that mental imagery vividness correlates with performance on a word-color interference task. This suggests that subjective imagery strength may not directly influence low-level perceptual processing or interference.
Cui and colleagues · Vision Research
In eight adults, those who rated their visual imagery as more vivid showed more activity in early visual cortex, relative to the rest of the brain, while imagining people exercising in a brain scanner. They were also worse at identifying a briefly flashed color word when the background matched the color the word named. The authors propose both as objective measures of how vivid someone's imagery is, though the links come from only eight people.
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