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Aphantasia

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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.

Facts
Classification
Type of Phenomenon
Cognitive Phenomenon 1
First Described Year
1880 2
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Aphantasia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
Quote, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
the inability to voluntarily visualize mental images
2. Aphantasia (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia Aphantasia lead paragraph (w-bbfill-psymath4-0926)
Quote, Wikipedia Aphantasia lead paragraph (w-bbfill-psymath4-0926)
first described by Francis Galton in 1880
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