#AphantAsia

Some people can't picture anything in their heads, and studying their brains is overturning a popular theory of how imagination works.

A collection, normal things human bodies can (sometimes) do: reflexes, illusions, sounds, tricks and rare abilities.

Aphantasia (the inability to visualize) is one of those things that I find endlessly fascinating; I’ve written about it a few times since 2016, most recently in response to Larissa MacFarquhar’s 2

Training programmes for people with aphantasia – the inability to create mental images – are challenging neuroscientists' understanding of how we create thoughts