Not to be confused with aphasia, the inability to formulate language.
A representation of how people with differing visualization abilities might picture an apple in their mind. The first image is bright and photographic, levels 2 through 4 show increasingly simpler and more faded images, and the last—representing complete aphantasia—shows no image at all.
Aphantasia (/ˌeɪfænˈteɪʒə/AY-fan-TAY-zhə, /ˌæfænˈteɪʒə/AF-an-TAY-zhə) is the inability to create mental imagery.[1]
The phenomenon was first described by Francis Galton in 1880,[2] but has remained relatively unstudied. Interest in the phenomenon renewed after the publication of a study in 2015 conducted by a team led by Adam Zeman of the University of Exeter.[3] Zeman's team coined the term aphantasia,[4] derived from the ancient Greek word phantasia (φαντασία), which means "appearance/image", and the prefix a- (ἀ-), which means "without".[5] People with aphantasia are called aphantasics,[6] or less commonly aphants[7] or aphantasiacs.[8]
Aphantasia can be considered the opposite of hyperphantasia, the condition of having extremely vivid mental imagery.[9][10]
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^Keogh R, Pearson J, Zeman A (January 2021). "Aphantasia: The science of visual imagery extremes". Neurology of Vision and Visual Disorders. Handbook of Clinical Neurology. Vol. 178. pp. 277–296. doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-821377-3.00012-x. ISBN 978-0-12-821377-3. PMID 33832681. S2CID 233193117.
Aphantasia (/ˌeɪfænˈteɪʒə/ AY-fan-TAY-zhə, /ˌæfænˈteɪʒə/ AF-an-TAY-zhə) is the inability to create mental imagery. The phenomenon was first described by...
opposite condition to aphantasia, where mental visual imagery is not present. The experience of hyperphantasia is more common than aphantasia and has been described...
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people cannot conjure images. The lack of a mental camera is known as aphantasia, and millions more experience extraordinarily strong mental imagery, called...
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