Revisiting the blind mind: Still no evidence for sensory visual imagery in individuals with aphantasia
The inability to visualise was given the name aphantasia in 2015 by Zeman and colleagues. In 2018 we published research showing that fifteen individuals who self-identified as having aphantasia also demonstrated a lack of sensory visual imagery when undergoing the binocular rivalry imagery paradigm,...
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| description | The inability to visualise was given the name aphantasia in 2015 by Zeman and colleagues. In 2018 we published research showing that fifteen individuals who self-identified as having aphantasia also demonstrated a lack of sensory visual imagery when undergoing the binocular rivalry imagery paradigm, suggesting more than just a metacognitive difference. Here we update these findings with over fifty participants with aphantasia and show that there is evidence for a lack of sensory imagery in aphantasia. How the binocular rivalry paradigm scores relate to the vividness of visual imagery questionnaire (VVIQ) and how aphantasia can be confirmed is discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5dca08b5f9cb4b9c88683b9cd6b07d062024-11-21T06:02:29ZengElsevierNeuroscience Research0168-01022024-04-012012730Revisiting the blind mind: Still no evidence for sensory visual imagery in individuals with aphantasiaRebecca Keogh0Joel Pearson1School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia; School of Psychology, UNSW, Sydney, Australia; Corresponding author at: School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.School of Psychology, UNSW, Sydney, AustraliaThe inability to visualise was given the name aphantasia in 2015 by Zeman and colleagues. In 2018 we published research showing that fifteen individuals who self-identified as having aphantasia also demonstrated a lack of sensory visual imagery when undergoing the binocular rivalry imagery paradigm, suggesting more than just a metacognitive difference. Here we update these findings with over fifty participants with aphantasia and show that there is evidence for a lack of sensory imagery in aphantasia. How the binocular rivalry paradigm scores relate to the vividness of visual imagery questionnaire (VVIQ) and how aphantasia can be confirmed is discussed.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168010224000129AphantasiaBinocular RivalryVisual Imagery |
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| title | Revisiting the blind mind: Still no evidence for sensory visual imagery in individuals with aphantasia |
| title_full | Revisiting the blind mind: Still no evidence for sensory visual imagery in individuals with aphantasia |
| title_fullStr | Revisiting the blind mind: Still no evidence for sensory visual imagery in individuals with aphantasia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Revisiting the blind mind: Still no evidence for sensory visual imagery in individuals with aphantasia |
| title_short | Revisiting the blind mind: Still no evidence for sensory visual imagery in individuals with aphantasia |
| title_sort | revisiting the blind mind still no evidence for sensory visual imagery in individuals with aphantasia |
| topic | Aphantasia Binocular Rivalry Visual Imagery |
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