Aphantasia
In search of a theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21501855 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Blomkvist (0000-0002-1997-592X, Department of Philosophy University of Sheffield Sheffield UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 866-888 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mind & Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-1064 • E-ISSN: 1468-0017 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/mila.12432 |
| OpenAlex | W4283759781 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 70 |
Though researchers working on congenital aphantasia (henceforth “aphantasia”) agree that this condition involves an impairment in the ability to voluntarily generate visual imagery, disagreement looms large as to which other impairments are exhibited by aphantasic subjects. This article offers the first extensive review of studies on aphantasia, and proposes that aphantasic subjects exhibit a cluster of impairments. It puts forward a novel cognitive theory of aphantasia, building on the constructive episodic simulation hypothesis of memory and imagination. It argues that aphantasia is best explained as a malfunction of processes in the episodic system, and is therefore an episodic system condition
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Constructive · Episodic memory · Computer Science · Face Recognition and Perception · Psychology · Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Congenital aphantasia
Are there unconscious visual images in aphantasia? Development of an implicit priming paradigm
Mental Imagery
Affording imagination
Mental imagery through the lens of aphantasia
Egocentric Content and the Complex Subject
No general pathological significance of aphantasia
Aphantasia reimagined
Autism and Aphantasia
Aphantasia and involuntary imagery
Aphantasia modulates immersion experience but not eye fixation patterns during story reading
Reimagining the vividness of visual imagery questionnaire as a single item screener for aphantasia
Aphantasia demystified
Impoverished recall of sensory details along infrequently travelled routes in aphantasia
Diversity makes the richness of humanity
Mindreading
Inquiries into human faculty and its development.
Phantasia–The psychological significance of lifelong visual imagery vividness extremes
Remembering the past and imagining the future
The human imagination
Lives without imagery – Congenital aphantasia
The blind mind
The cognitive neuroscience of constructive memory
Separate visual pathways for perception and action
Aphantasia, imagination and dreaming
Understanding Simulation 1
Visual Imagery Differences in the Recall of Pictures
The ghosts of brain states past
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |