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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.
Keogh and Pearson · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
In binocular rivalry tests, people with aphantasia were primed by attending to a visible striped pattern but showed no sign of attentional templates when it was absent. The authors conclude templates and imagery are closely linked.
Nanay · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
A philosophy paper arguing that mental imagery need not be conscious, drawing on stroke patients with neglect and on imagery that primes perception even when people try not to imagine. For aphantasia, it points to one person who reported no imagery yet did about as well as others on a task thought to need it, and proposes that some people with aphantasia have imagery they are not aware of. It notes that 15 people with aphantasia showed no priming from deliberate imagery, argues that this leaves involuntary, unconscious imagery untested, and suggests brain scans to settle the question.
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