Rebecca Keogh

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

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

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Neuroscientists say the best way to study hallucinations is via lab models where they can be induced in anyone, anytime.

Is your imagination strong, fuzzy or non-existent?

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