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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.
Kleider-Offutt and Meacham · Psychology, Crime & Law
In an online study of 323 students and volunteers, describing a perpetrator's face after a crime video went with slightly better lineup choices, not the worse choices older studies predicted. The 16 people with weak or no visual imagery picked as accurately as everyone else, and they did better after describing the face (46% against 33% correct), but with eight people in each condition this is a pattern to test again rather than a finding. The authors suggest people without imagery may lean on words to remember faces.
Beran and colleagues · Consciousness and Cognition
Of 5,010 U.S. adults, 8.9% said they had no mental imagery, but only 1.5% scored in the aphantasia range on a standard questionnaire. This suggests estimates of how common aphantasia is depend on how it is measured.
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