Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences. The post <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-happens-in-a-mind-that-cant-see-mental-images-20240801/" target="_blank">What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org" target="_blank">Quanta Magazine</a>

Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences. The post What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences. The post <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-happens-in-a-mind-that-cant-see-mental-images-20240801/" rel="noopener noreferrer">What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">Quanta Magazine</a>

What Happens in a Mind That Can't 'See' Mental Images

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Exploring the distant universe, the insides of cells, the abstractions of math, the complexity of information itself, and much more, The Quanta Podcast is a tour of the frontier between the known and the unknown. In each episode, Quanta Magazine editor in chief Samir Patel speaks with the minds behind the award-winning publication to navigate through some of the most important and mind-expanding questions in science and math. Quanta specifically covers fundamental research — driven by curiosity, discovery and the overwhelming desire to know why and how. Join us every Tuesday for a stimulating conversation about the biggest ideas and the tiniest details.

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