More "somewhere on the spectrum". Informal testing suggests I'm right below the threshold to technically count.
I guess it might boil down to if it can be experimentally qualified and quantified – I don't if has been by anybody...?
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Looks like the term was only coined in 2015, so that probably explains most of the variance here.
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yeah the term is new, but the idea had been around for a lot longer. I'm a bit fuzzy on historical details though
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the blog post does a good job
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there are the classic mental rotation tasks but I've never been clear on how predictive they really are
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Yes, of course there are. But they are not and there are not AFAIK clinical tests for aphantasia.
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so one way to sci investigate would be to get aphantasics and non-ap ppl into an fMRI and decode them imagining or
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trying to imagine and compare the voxels w/ them actually looking at the thing. Would be way of comparing subjective
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experience VS voxel activations. Esp since we know imagining in non-ap ppl involves visual cortex a lot.
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what sort of thing do you have in mind as an imagining task?
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the 2 conds would be "imagine an X" vs "look at this X"; X = basiclevel categs (cat, dog, ect) as we already do.
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