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What is complete aphantasia?
Aphantasia is a phenomenon in which people are unable to visualize imagery. While most people are able to conjure an image of a scene or face in their minds, people with aphantasia cannot.
Are there different levels of aphantasia?
Aphantasia is rare, but scientists have identified two types of the disorder, including acquired aphantasia, which can occur after a brain injury or occasionally after periods of depression or psychosis, and congenital aphantasia, which is present at birth.
How many aphantasia are there?
Some people, when asked to form an image, will report they cannot “see” anything. This recently-identified variation of human experience was named in 2015 as aphantasia. It is estimated that 2\% to 5\% of the population have a lifelong inability to generate any images within their mind’s eye.
What does aphantasia do to your brain?
But some people lack the ability to do this. They have a condition called aphantasia. Aphantasia, which may affect as many as 1 in 50 people, happens when your brain’s visual cortex doesn’t work properly. Your visual cortex is the part of your brain that processes visual information from your eyes.
What is aphantasia and how do you treat it?
But some people lack the ability to do this. They have a condition called aphantasia. Aphantasia, which may affect as many as 1 in 50 people, happens when your brain’s visual cortex doesn’t work properly. Your visual cortex is the part of your brain that processes visual information from your eyes.
Is aphantasia a special form of visual agnosia?
Most patients of visual agnosia can at least approximately describe objects based on their visual memory. Patients of the hypothetical Aphantasia would not be able to do this. Thus the Aphantasia would be a special form of visual agnosia and could at the same time be described as the most extreme type of blindness.
Who are some famous people with aphantasia?
Craig Venter, biologist who first sequenced the Human Genome. Blake Ross, creator of Mozilla Firefox. Glen Keane, Disney Animator and Creator of The Little Mermaid. Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller. All have aphantasia.
Can aphantasia occur after a stroke?
Aphantasia after a stroke or other illness should be discussed with the appropriate physician. It may just be the side effect of a certain drug, or the Aphantasia has mental causes. A doctor should be consulted at the latest when the phenomenon affects the quality of life.