October means baseball playoffs, and if you are a baseball fan, ... Who is on base, who is up next, and how long the pitcher has been in the game. A lot of visual imagery can be at work ...

For most people, visual imagery plays a significant role in how we process language, especially when reading narratives.

Visual imagery—the ability to mentally summon the image of a landscape, a person, or an object that is not directly observable—varies greatly in intensity from one individual to another.

The most famous test is called the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire, created in 1973 to study the strength of mental imagery, long before aphantasia was named.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A Brownsburg photographer is forever changing baseball imagery. James Black, owner of James Black Photography and a photographer for ICON Sportswire, was tasked with coming ...

People with aphantasia—individuals who report experiencing no visual imagery at all—also showed reduced activation of the brain's visual cortex in response to sounds, according to a new study.

These processes were even less defined in 2003, when an articulate and bright 60-year-old man walked into Adam Zeman’s office. Zeman, a neurologist at the universities of Edinburgh and Exeter who ...

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 ...

Far from it. “I can imagine things, I can create very complex imagery,” she explains. “It is just not in [a] visual form. So for me, everything is black—but I have a concept, I mentalize ...