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- Title
Aphantasia: In search of a theory.
- Authors
Blomkvist, Andrea
- Abstract
Though researchers working on congenital aphantasia (henceforth "aphantasia") agree that this condition involves an impairment in the ability to voluntarily generate visual imagery, disagreement looms large as to which other impairments are exhibited by aphantasic subjects. This article offers the first extensive review of studies on aphantasia, and proposes that aphantasic subjects exhibit a cluster of impairments. It puts forward a novel cognitive theory of aphantasia, building on the constructive episodic simulation hypothesis of memory and imagination. It argues that aphantasia is best explained as a malfunction of processes in the episodic system, and is therefore an episodic system condition.
- Subjects
SEARCH theory; MENTAL imagery; IMAGINATION
- Publication
Mind & Language, 2023, Vol 38, Issue 3, p866
- ISSN
0268-1064
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/mila.12432