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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.
Lebon · Cortex
Individuals with aphantasia show decodable activity in early visual cortices during imagery tasks despite lacking conscious visual experience. This suggests that neural activation in V1 does not necessarily equate to subjective mental imagery.
Dupont and colleagues · Brain Communications
Aphantasics showed no increase in motor system excitability during motor imagery or action observation tasks. This suggests aphantasia involves a physiological impairment in motor simulation rather than just a deficit in metacognition.
Dupont and colleagues · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Aphantasics showed no increase in motor cortex excitability while reading action sentences, unlike those with typical imagery. This suggests that mental imagery is a necessary component for the motor simulation of language.
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