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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.
Pearson · Current Directions in Psychological Science
A short review of two newer ways to study mental imagery: reading imagined content from brain scans, and a test in which imagining one of two patterns makes it more likely to be seen when each eye sees a different pattern. On that test, imagery acts like weak seeing: bright light weakens it, it matches the imagined position and orientation, and people can tell which of their images were strong. Imagery strength stayed the same over five days of hour-long practice, and strong imagers seem to use imagery for short-term visual memory while people without it use other strategies.
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