Two years ago, Sarah Shomstein realized she didn’t have a mind’s eye. The vision scientist was sitting in a seminar room, listening to a scientific talk, when the presenter asked the audience to ...

Imagination is a wondrous gift, casting vivid worlds in the theater of our minds. But for those with aphantasia, the ability to visualize remains an enigma. Even the brilliant neurologist Oliver Sacks ...

Picture this, if you will: Aphantasia can be detected with an eye-opening look into our pupils. To first gauge the pupillary reflex of non-aphantasic people, the researchers sought 42 study ...

When people lack visual imagination, this is known as aphantasia. Researchers investigated how the lack of mental imagery affects long-term memory. They were able to show that changes in two important ...