Topic: Multisensory Aphantasia
Aphantasia is often described as a visual condition but can impact all senses in your imagination. Current estimates are that ~26% of visual aphantasics experience no mental imagery or have a reduced capacity in other mental senses (imagining sound, movement, smell, taste, and touch). Discover and learn about multisensory aphantasia.
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From guided imagery to imagined athletic practices, are aphantasics disadvantaged because they lack a mind’s eye?
My journey understanding the cognitive profiles of aphantasia and hyperphantasia started when I learned at age 30 that most of you have a superpower I don’t.
A case for studying mental imagery as a whole
I can't. Exploring auditory aphantasia and the mysterious mind's ear.
How do you describe aphantasia? Founder of Aphantasia Network often gets asked this question. His answer? Think of a horse.
When it comes to visualizing things in the mind's eye, our experience varies widely. Exploring the phenomenon of visual imagery and its assessment.
March 6, 2023
I’m pretty sure based on previous conversations, that Aphantasia is the inability to recall all senses, like sight, taste, touch, sound, etc. But this...
February 17, 2023
Okay, it’s not exactly that I can visualize movement. I don’t know how to explain it, it’s without visuals yet I can still imagine movement...
April 21, 2022
To begin, let me clarify my understanding of empathy vs sympathy. Empathy means experiencing someone else’s emotions while sympathy is an ability to u...
June 26, 2021
I read a post by Ian Miller that describes the way I think. He said:
“I build mental models of almost everything that I work on, they are often spatia...
June 17, 2021
I only discovered my aphantasia a few years ago (81 now) but was always aware that I didn’t think like others and was vaguely aware than many seemed to...
February 21, 2021
I have only just discovered Aphantasia as a result of research after also just discovering that other people have a voice in their head. I am now astounded t...
September 30, 2019
There’s a wide range of ways we can have aphantasia. Some people have total aphantasia, no visual, auditory, olfactory, or motor imagery, and some of u...
November 12, 2018
Aphantasia isn’t limited to just visual imagination; it can impact all sensory imagery in the mind.
For example, when most people go to a restaurant and see ...
Aphantasia is the inability to visualize but can impact all mental imagery senses. Joel Pearson joins Founder of Aphantasia Network, Tom Ebeyer, for a live Ask Me Anything event to answer the community's questions.
February 25, 2021