Most of us assume that to be a musician, you have to hear music in your head. New qualitative research from David Tolman challenges that — and reveals that the strategies musicians use with auditory aphantasia aren't broken workarounds, but a genuine way of reasoning musically.

A new paper in the Journal of Mad Studies argues that aphantasia research has a blind spot: it quietly treats visual imagery as the norm and aphantasia as the defect—shaping the questions scientists ask before anyone notices the assumption is there.

New research from the University of Lyon suggests that people with aphantasia may actually reason faster on certain logic problems—a finding that challenges the long-held assumption that mental imagery helps us think.

New research from Wilma Bainbridge and her team at the University of Chicago reveals that people with aphantasia still remember pictures better than words—a finding that upends one of psychology's most influential theories about how memory works.

Art historian Matthew MacKisack's research reveals that aphantasic artists create stunning work through external composition—challenging centuries of assumptions about creativity and imagination.

For decades, neuroscientists assumed they understood mental imagery. Then people with aphantasia proved them wrong—and changed the future of consciousness research.

What if the key to understanding mental imagery differences isn't in your brain's visual centers? New research reveals why your ability to visualize may depend on something unexpected: how well you sense your own body.

How emails from struggling aphantasics prompted a University of Bonn psychologist to apply the rigorous criteria of mental health diagnosis — and what he found changed the conversation.

How a student's curiosity about her own family sparked a decade-long investigation into imagery vividness — and uncovered a near-perfect developmental curve that nobody had seen before.