the ability to imagine.” As it turns out, however, some people cannot. Everyone is quite familiar with our ability to devise any background and pluck objects from our memory to place them on the canvas, something commonly referred to as ourmind’s eye. Toaphantasiacs, this is...
Research indicates that aphantasia is not a single entity but has subtypes. For example, not everyone with aphantasia has a poor autobiographical memory or difficulty in recognizing faces, and in a minority of people, aphantasia appeared to be linked to autism. People who cannot visualize are more...