aphantasia
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.2|A representation of how people with differing visualization abilities might picture an apple in their mind. The first image is bright and photographic, levels 2 through 4 show increasingly simpler and more faded images, and the last—representing complete aphantasia—shows no image at all.
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- perception
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- Aphantasia apple test.png
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- Aphantasia
- opposite of
- hyperphantasia
- health specialty
- neuropsychology
- symptoms and signs
- non-existence
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thumb|upright=1.2|A representation of how people with differing visualization abilities might picture an apple in their mind. The first image is bright and photographic, levels 2 through 4 show increasingly simpler and more faded images, and the last—representing complete aphantasia—shows no image at all.
Aphantasia ( , ) is the inability to voluntarily visualize mental images.
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