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 ...

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.

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 ...

Behavioral and Neural Signatures of Visual Imagery Vividness Extremes: Aphantasia versus Hyperphantasia. Cerebral Cortex Communications , 2021; 2 (2) DOI: 10.1093/texcom/tgab035 Cite This Page : ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Visual imagery is involved in many everyday tasks, such as remembering the past, navigation and facial recognition, to name a few. Anecdotal reports from our aphantasic participants indicate that ...

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 ...