Lives without imagery – Congenital aphantasia

2015/06/06 by Adam Zeman, Michaela Dewar, Sergio Della Sala · 631 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Analysis of variance #Audiology #Auditory imagery #Autism Spectrum Disorder Research #Child and Animal Learning Development #Cognition #Cognitive psychology #Developmental psychology #Face Recognition and Perception #Mental image #Perception #Psychology #Statistics #Visual perception

paper · open access · doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2015.05.019

published in Cortex 73, 378-380 (Elsevier BV)

openalex publication_date 2015/06/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

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