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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.
Megla, Prasad and Bainbridge · Cerebral Cortex
Researchers found that an aphantasic twin had surprisingly similar brain activity to their imager twin during memory tasks despite lacking visual imagery. This suggests aphantasia may be a spectrum with more preserved visual information than previously thought.
Prasad, Megla and Bainbridge · Journal of Vision
Aphantasics show significant neural overlap with typical imagers during memory recall despite reporting no visual imagery. This suggests that aphantasia may involve a disruption in conscious access to visual information rather than a total absence of it.
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