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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.
Cleary and colleagues · Neurocase
Researchers found that a 16-year-old with HSAM exhibited typical visual imagery vividness but significantly higher rates of involuntary memories. This suggests that superior memory may be driven by retrieval frequency rather than imagery ability.
Furman and colleagues · Neurocase
A 35-year-old man with lifelong aphantasia scored in the normal range or above on standard tests and high on mental rotation, which he said he solved with a body-based, non-visual strategy. His EEG was recorded as he looked at a face and then tried to picture it. For picturing, estimated brain activity began in left temporal rather than frontal areas, with no significant activity in rear visual areas or in a parietal area linked to imagery within 300 milliseconds. It is a single case with no comparison person, which the authors call only a first step.
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