By recording brain activity directly, scientists showed that imagining an object can revive parts of the neural pattern used to see it.

A post by Christian O. Scholz, Jianghao Liu, and Andrea Blomkvist In this blog post, we will argue that aphantasia rightfully ascended from a niche curiosity to a hot topic across the cognitive scien...

Top-down projections from the orbitofrontal cortex carry predictive signals that grow with sound experience and suppress the auditory cortex via inhibitory circuits, revealing a predictive mechanism f...

People with aphantasia are offering a window into consciousness.

Mental imagery refers to one’s quasi-perceptual experience in the absence of direct external input. Yet around 4% of individuals with “aphantasia” rep…

People with aphantasia are offering a window into consciousness.

Most people report that they can imagine seeing things in their mind’s eye. But there are large individual differences. A small proportion of people r…

The absence of visual mental imagery, called aphantasia, occurs congenitally in up to 3% of the general population, but the brain regions responsible …

A core function of visual working memory (WM) is to sustain mental representations of recent visual inputs, thereby bridging moments of experience. This is thought to occur in part by recruiting early...

A post by Jianghao Liu Please imagine a red Gala apple. Is it darker or lighter than a cherry? Most of us can easily conjure a mental image, a perceptual-like experience that feels almost as if we we...

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Aphantasia is defined as the absence (or near-absence) of imagery experience, most commonly in but not necessarily limited to the visual modality. Whi…

Adam Zeman's recent review of mental imagery extremes [1] offers a thorough and balanced synthesis of current perspectives on aphantasia. Among the findings he discusses is a recent connectivity study [2] in which we found that individuals with aphantasia showed typical activation of high-level visual cortices during imagery tasks but reduced functional connectivity between the left fusiform imagery node (FIN) [3] and left frontoparietal regions. Zeman suggests that such alterations in network interactions may provide a promising neural basis for aphantasia.