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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.
MacKisack and colleagues · Art Journal
Artists with aphantasia create work through external interaction with materials rather than internal mental preconfiguration. This demonstrates that artistic creativity does not require visual imagery and can emerge from diverse neurocognitive processes.
MacKisack and colleagues · Frontiers in Psychology
The paper traces the long philosophical history of mental imagery, from Aristotelian "phantasma" to behaviorist skepticism. This historical context reveals that modern neuroscientific debates over imagery's role in cognition are rooted in centuries of conflicting intellectual traditions.
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