This guy can't visualise images. He's not alone. Have a read. Sound familiar? https://m.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-feels-to-be-blind-in-your-mind/10156834777480504/ …
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Self reporting is ok as a first step but certainly more rigorous methods could be used. fMRI comes to mind. Areas would not light up, etc.
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At least that's what my prediction would be.
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What would be really cool is looking at it in a multivariate way, eg the similarity spaces of a visualiser vs non to see how representations
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differ. Would be interesting to see how, if they were diff, problems still got solved by both groups.
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Here's a more recent accessible account of aphantasia with mention of fMRI https://www.newscientist.com/article/2124346-people-with-no-minds-eye-may-help-us-boost-our-creativity/ …
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Oh, I see. Their frontal cortex doesn't light up as much. But this is at rest. So hmm.
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Too much criticism for this work is coming to mind, but I hope they keep going and design experiments not just resting state.
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Iirc there was a prof in the states working on this? Maybe mentioned in the article Jen shared?
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I read that when it first came out in 2016. Don't think it was studied with fMRI but I'll check!
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I sometimes can do this (requires isolation/no distractions). When I can't do it, I have different ways of working...
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I generally try to reserve higher-level/systems thinking for when I can visualise well. Detail stuff I don't use it at all even if I can.
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ADHD and other stuff might interact. Isolation is confounder - might be deep focus not visualising that links isolation + systems thinking.
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