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Giant Brain Candy: Minds Without Pictures. Some people have no voluntary visual imagery at all: when they try to picture something, nothing appears. In 2015 researchers named this aphantasia, describing people with little or no imagery all their lives. Source: Lives without imagery.
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  1. Zeman, A., Dewar, M., & Della Sala, S. (2015). Lives without imagery – Congenital aphantasia. Cortex, 73, 378–380.

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Minds Without Pictures

Some people have no voluntary visual imagery at all: when they try to picture something, nothing appears. In 2015 researchers named this aphantasia, describing people with little or no imagery all their lives.

Source: Lives without imagery · Strong evidence

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