Quantifying aphantasia through drawing: Those without visual imagery show deficits in object but not spatial memory

2020/12/03 by Wilma A. Bainbridge, Wilma Bainbridge, Zoë Pounder +2 · 36 citations
Neuroscience · Computer Science · #Face Recognition and Perception #Visual perception and processing mechanisms #Visual Attention and Saliency Detection

paper · doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2020.11.014

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• The neural correlates of visual mental imagery: An ongoing debate
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• Phantasia–The psychological significance of lifelong visual imagery vividness extremes

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