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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.
Monzel, Keidel and Reuter · Journal of Research in Personality
People with aphantasia scored lower on empathy when distressing scenes were described in words, but not when they were shown as photos. This suggests written empathy tests may partly measure imagery rather than empathy.
Monzel, Keidel and Reuter · Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
In an online task, people who reported aphantasia were slightly slower than others to pick out a pictured object they had been asked to imagine, but not a written word. The authors conclude imagery-guided attention is reduced in aphantasia.
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