I thought 'mind's eye' was just a metaphor. When my eyes are open, I see only what's around me. When I close them I see nothing. Ever You can save this article by registering for free here. Or ...

“In the midrange, you experience the mind’s eye — knowing something is not real, but sounds can trigger some images in your mind. And then you have aphantasia,” Muckli says.

Tom Ebeyer has aphantasia, the inability to visualize images in the mind. And for the first two decades of his life, he had no idea his brain was different in any way.

People with aphantasia, or “aphants,” say they lack the ability to effectively visualize in their mind’s eye. They might have vivid imaginations, and lead very creative lives, but their ...

Can you picture an apple in your mind? Do you know some people cannot do that? Let's explore the hidden diversity of inner perceptual worlds.

The study suggests that in people with the condition – which involves having no “mind’s eye”, or an inability to conjure up mental images – the brain’s visual cortex is still active ...

People with aphantasia lack the ability to summon crisp images in their "mind's eye." But even though they can't visualize in this way, the blueprints for those imaginary images might still be ...

Words are powerful things. In 2015, with the help of a friend versed in the classics and two psychologist collaborators, I coined the term “aphantasia” to refer to the absence of a mind’s eye. We ...