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People Who Can't Picture Anything Are Rewriting the Science of ImaginationSome people can't picture anything in their heads, and studying their brains is overturning a popular theory of how imagination works.
A new review in Consciousness and Cognition argues that the popular model of imagination as backwards-flowing visual perception through the primary visual cortex is largely discredited. Research on people with aphantasia and on patients who retain imagery despite primary visual cortex destruction points instead to a distributed network spanning prefrontal cortex, fusiform gyrus, and parietal areas.
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