Aphantasia is the inability to voluntarily visualize mental images. It can be considered the opposite of hyperphantasia, the condition of having extremely vivid mental imagery.
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1. Wikipedia: Aphantasia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AphantasiaQuote, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
the inability to voluntarily visualize mental images
2. Aphantasia (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia Aphantasia lead paragraph (w-bbfill-psymath4-0926)
first described by Francis Galton in 1880
In Branch: Cognitive Psychology, Lead sentence
Aphantasia ( AY-fan-TAY-zhə, AF-an-TAY-zhə) is the inability to voluntarily visualize mental images.
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