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Windows to the soul: Pupils reveal 'aphantasia', the absence of visual imagination

20 Apr 2022

Picture this, if you will: Aphantasia can be detected with an eye-opening look into our pupils.

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I ain't afraid of no ghosts: people with mind-blindness not so easily spooked

10 Mar 2021

The link between mental imagery and emotions may be closer than we thought.

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Being 'mind-blind' may make remembering, dreaming and imagining harder, study finds

23 Jun 2020

Aphantasia – being blind in the mind’s eye – may be linked to more cognitive functions than previously thought, new research from UNSW Sydney shows.

Is your imagination strong, fuzzy or non-existent?

How strong is your mental imagery? It might depend on how 'excitable' your neurons are

06 May 2020

Highly excitable brain neurons in the visual cortex may reduce a person’s ability to visualise things clearly, neuroscience study finds. 

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World-first brain imaging study to understand mind blindness

25 Jun 2018

To determine why some people cannot create visual images of people, places and things in their mind’s eye, UNSW scientists are planning to conduct a world-first brain imaging study of people with this baffling condition, known as congenital aphantasia.

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Blind in the mind: why some people can’t see pictures in their imagination

30 Nov 2017

Rebecca Keogh and Joel Pearson explore congenital aphantasia – the inability to create visual imagery in the mind's eye.