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disposition > cognitive disorder > aphantasia

Preferred term

aphantasia  

Definition(s)

  • "condition of reduced or absent voluntary imagery" (Zeman et al., 2015, p. 379).

Broader concept(s)

Synonym(s)

  • blind imagination
  • congenital aphantasia
  • defective revisualisation
  • visual irreminiscence

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Arcangeli, M. (2023). Aphantasia demystified. Synthese, 201(2), 31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-04027-9

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Blomkvist, A. (in press). Aphantasia: In search of a theory. Mind & Language. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12432

    [Study type: literature review / Access: open]
  • • Dance, C. J., Ipser, A., & Simner, J. (2022). The prevalence of aphantasia (imagery weakness) in the general population. Consciousness and Cognition, 97, 103243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2021.103243

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Dawes, A. J., Keogh, R., Andrillon, T., & Pearson, J. (2020). A cognitive profile of multi-sensory imagery, memory and dreaming in aphantasia. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 10022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65705-7

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Keogh, R., & Pearson, J. (2018). The blind mind : No sensory visual imagery in aphantasia. Cortex, 105, 53‑60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2017.10.012

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Keogh, R., Pearson, J., & Zeman, A. (2021). Aphantasia : The science of visual imagery extremes. In J. J. S. Barton & A. Leff (Eds.), Handbook of Clinical Neurology (Vol. 178, p. 277‑296). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821377-3.00012-X

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Milton, F., Fulford, J., Dance, C., Gaddum, J., Heuerman-Williamson, B., Jones, K., Knight, K. F., MacKisack, M., Winlove, C., & Zeman, A. (2021). Behavioral and neural signatures of visual imagery vividness extremes : Aphantasia versus hyperphantasia. Cerebral Cortex Communications, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/texcom/tgab035

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Monzel, M., Vetterlein, A., & Reuter, M. (2023). No general pathological significance of aphantasia: An evaluation based on criteria for mental disorders. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 64(3), 314-324. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12887

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Zeman, A., Dewar, M., & Della Sala, S. (2015). Lives without imagery – Congenital aphantasia. Cortex, 73, 378‑380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2015.05.019

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Zeman, A., Dewar, M., & Della Sala, S. (2016). Reflections on aphantasia. Cortex, 74, 336‑337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2015.08.015

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Zeman, A. Z. J., Della Sala, S., Torrens, L. A., Gountouna, V.-E., McGonigle, D. J., & Logie, R. H. (2010). Loss of imagery phenomenology with intact visuo-spatial task performance : A case of ‘blind imagination’. Neuropsychologia, 48(1), 145‑155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.08.024

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

Disorder of

Dataset citation(s)

  • • Bainbridge, W. A., Pounder, Z., Eardley, A., & Baker, C. I. (2021, January 15). Quantifying Aphantasia through drawing: Those without visual imagery show deficits in object but not spatial memory. https://osf.io/cahyd
  • • Keogh, R. (2021, July 30). VWM and aphantasia. https://osf.io/8r3eq

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