Think about your breakfast this morning. Can you imagine the pattern on your coffee mug? The sheen of the jam on your half-eaten toast? Most of us can call up such pictures in our minds. We can ...

Congenital aphantasia is considered the inability to consciously generate visual imagery. Although there are early descriptions of this disorder going back to Aristotle, it was not formally described ...

Thanks to 7T fMRI, researchers from Paris Brain Institute and NeuroSpin, the CEA's neuroimaging center, are exploring the neural substrate of visual imagery at very high resolution for the first time.

How vivid is your mind’s eye? If you were to try to picture an apple right now, can you see it? The shape, the color, the skin, the stem? Or is there no picture at all? Aphantasia, a phenomenon ...

A small team of brain researchers at South China Normal University, working with a colleague from the University of New South Wales, has found that the visual processing parts of the brain light up in ...

People with aphantasia can’t mentally visualize things. Mental imagery is a spectrum, and we lie outside it, in the dark I discovered I had aphantasia by accident. When you live your entire life ...

Aphantasia is a relatively recent term coined by Adam Zeman and colleagues in 2015 to refer to the experience of lacking visual mental imagery. When people are asked to close their eyes and imagine a ...

Coming up with new scientific ideas is a creative process that requires scientists to imagine things that don't exist yet, so it's surprising that a new study shows that people who can't form mental ...

Have you ever tried to picture a sunset, a loved one’s face, or the cover of your favorite book, and realised you can’t? One might assume that’s impossible for some people, but for some, imagining ...

Picture the sun setting over the ocean. It's large above the horizon, spreading an orange-pink glow across the sky. Seagulls are flying overhead and your toes are in the sand. Many people will have ...