Blind Mind's Eye

This is the final version. Available from Sigma Xi via the DOI in this recordA condition called aphantasia affects 1 to 3 percent of the population. Aphantasics lack the ability to visualize imagery—a term that includes all the senses, not just sight. A survey about imagery vividness from 1880 was the first to document the condition, but it remained a little-studied phenomenon until the past few decades. Aphantasia does not imply a lack of imagination, which indicates that the brain has a wide range of methods for cognitive representation, some more abstract than experiential.Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC