Phantasia

Aristotle coined phantasia in On the Soul to describe a capacity between perception and thought, a kind of sixth sense. It's often translated as imagination.

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Phantasia

Aristotle coined phantasia in On the Soul to describe a capacity between perception and thought, a kind of sixth sense. It's often translated as imagination.

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Phantasia: videos | Aphantasia Network

Overview Articles 17 Videos 7 Research 60 Discussions 10 Studies 1

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Disordered, Deficient, Dehumanized: How the Language of Aphantasia Research Shapes What We Think About It

May 2026

Pictures Without Mental Pictures: How Aphantasia Is Rewriting a 50-Year-Old Theory of Memory

March 2026

Rethinking Hyperphantasia: Why "Extreme" Mental Imagery Might Be Two Different Phenomena

February 2024

The Language Game of Visualization: Why Aphantasics Don't Need Mental Images to Imagine

June 2023

Is Aphantasia a Mental Disorder? A Researcher with Aphantasia Investigates

March 2023

Do We Become More Aphantasic With Age? A Hungarian Research Team Has Some Surprising Answers

September 2022

The Spectrum of Visual Imagination and its Relevance to Design

May 2022