Aphantasia
Aphantasia is a hypothesized neurological condition[1] where a person does not possess a functioning mind's eye. The phenomenon was first described by Francis Galton in 1880,[2] but remained largely unstudied until 2015, when it was termed aphantasia by a team led by Prof. Adam Zeman of the University of Exeter Medical School.[3] Further studies are being planned.[4]
References
- ↑ editor, James Gallagher Health; website, BBC News. "Aphantasia: A life without mental images". BBC News. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
- ↑ Galton, Francis (19 July 1880). "Statistics of Mental Imagery". Mind (Oxford Journals) os–V (19): 301–318. doi:10.1093/mind/os-V.19.301. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ↑ Zeman, Adam; Dewar, Michaela; Della Sala, Sergio. "Lives without imagery – Congenital aphantasia". Cortex. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2015.05.019. ISSN 0010-9452. Retrieved 2015-06-24.
- ↑ Zimmer, Carl (2015-06-22). "Picture This? Some Just Can’t". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-06-24.
External links
- aphant.asia - An online community for people identifying as aphantasiacs
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