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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.
Carrasco and Ridout · Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
In two experiments with US students, one group smelled pairs of 16 everyday scratch-and-sniff odors, such as chocolate and leather, and rated how similar they were, while another group heard only the names and rated how similar the imagined smells were. Maps of both sets of ratings shared main dimensions such as fruitiness, strength and familiarity, which the authors take as evidence that people can imagine smells. The imagined map was looser than the real one, and the authors question how close the link is, though they argue that knowledge about the objects cannot fully explain the match.
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