Aphantasia

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.

Article · Neuroscience · Brain Research · Aphantasia · Mental Imagery