Research library
Papers about aphantasia and mental imagery, with summaries in plain words. The summaries are generated by AI and may contain errors.
Gardner, Saurels and Arnold · Cortex
Researchers found that while imagining dark versus bright scenes modulates the pupillary response, this physiological change does not correlate with subjective imagery vividness ratings. This suggests pupillometry is not a reliable objective index for individual differences in imagery strength.
Bumgardner, Yuan and Chiu · Oxford Medical Case Reports
A 62-year-old man lost his mental imagery during a complicated hospital stay for a stem cell transplant, and six months later had improved only slightly. The cause is unknown; the authors suspect low oxygen reaching the brain.
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