I'm aphantasiac and once practiced using memory palaces to memorize the order of a deck of cards. I was shocked how well it worked (this was before I knew aphantasia was unusual)
Are aphantastics - people with no “inner eye” - able to use visualization-based memory techniques such as the method of loci or memory palaces?
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This is interesting. I am aphant and to me such memorization techniques were absolutely baffling. "Oh, gee, now I have to remember the loci AND what I want to learn, how helpful!"
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I have no ability to visualize people, faces, or colors. I can imagine shapes, but its not fully visual, more a strong sense of orientation, position, and scale
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Same for me! And yes, method of loci works, at least to some extend, for me.
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I have literally no minds eye at all. No Shapes, colours or anything. Trying to do a memory palace is like a lower level version of my inner monolgue. Doesn't work for me. more interesting is "remembering what something looked like" when you have no visual memory.
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Best analogue might be remembering the next word of a song. The next word is just there, it's not really conscious, you just get a feeling of what you need to say. Most visual cognition tasks are basically like that for me (e.g. mental transformations of shapes)
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I have aphantasia, and the concept of recalling things by virtually looking around a visualized environment has always seemed ludicrous to me. I sometimes do use mnemonics based on artificial constructions, but I don't "look at them", I remember the semantics of the situation.
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I always thought it was a metaphor and yeah, it was like telling myself a story about what it would be like if I could visit "memory palace". So, those techniques didn't stick with me, unfortunately.
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I've read there are replacements that involve the use of narratives and even the use of music/rhythms
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I tried the method of loci but found it unhelpful. At the time, I thought "mind's eye" was a metaphor.
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