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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.
Fleming and Dijkstra · Cell Research
Researchers discovered that mental imagery reactivates the same sensory code as perception at the single-neuron level. This suggests that aphantasia may stem from how this shared activity is generated, modulated, or read out by the brain.
Dijkstra and Fleming · Nature Communications
The brain distinguishes reality from imagination based on whether intermixed sensory signals cross a strength threshold. This suggests that sufficiently vivid mental imagery can become subjectively indistinguishable from actual perception.
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