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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.
Palombo, Sheldon and Levine · Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Autobiographical memory varies significantly across individuals, ranging from highly superior to severely deficient capacities. This suggests that memory is a trait-like profile driven by distinct neural connectivity and cognitive strategies.
Sheldon, Amaral and Levine · Memory
Thirty-five young adults watched short everyday video clips and then answered true or false questions while looking either at flickering visual noise, which disrupts imagery, or at a plain gray screen. The noise made no difference overall, but the higher people rated their spatial imagery, the more accuracy they lost under noise on questions about what happened and where, though not about object details; object imagery ratings did not predict this loss. The authors suggest strong spatial imagers lean on imagery to rebuild events, while weaker spatial imagers may rely on other routes, such as verbal knowledge.
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