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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.
Vanbuckhave and colleagues · L’Année psychologique
Among 50 typical imagers, pupils showed no clear difference when imagining dark versus bright triangles, and only 56% showed the expected pattern. Pupil size may not be a reliable objective test for aphantasia.
Vanbuckhave and colleagues · Neuropsychologia
Pupillometry showed that imagined brightness modulates pupil size, but these changes did not correlate with individual self-reported imagery vividness. This suggests a dissociation between subjective reports and objective physiological measures of imagery.
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