New research has revealed that people with the ability to visualize vividly have a stronger connection between their visual network and the regions of the brain linked to decision-making. The study ...

When people read a book, they typically imagine the story in their heads. But how do people experience a story if they find it difficult or impossible to imagine what is being described? Cognitive ...

UNSW Sydney and Macquarie University psychology researchers have written an article warning that psychedelic therapies may switch on visual mental imagery in people with aphantasia and could raise the ...

Visual mental imagery has long been a central topic in vision science. Recent research has increasingly emphasized individual variability in the experience of imagery, spanning a continuum from the ...

Picture a reality where nothing is pictured. Psychology reveals what life looks like for someone with aphantasia. When someone prompts you to imagine a sunset, you can likely picture the bright ...

Aphantasia is the inability to recreate mental pictures in the mind's eye. Anywhere from 1% to 4% of people are estimated to ...

How many times have you watched a book adaptation on film or TV, and felt disappointed when a scene wasn’t quite how you’d pictured it? Or perhaps a character looked nothing like you’d imagined them ...

In a workshop called “Writing from the Senses,” novelist Janet Fitch taught us to how to see light (Fitch 2020). To describe a scene visually, so that readers can imagine it, a writer needs to think ...

The same brain cells activate when you see something and when you imagine it, helping explain why mental images can feel so ...

How does the brain create mental images? A new study reveals that visual imagination and perception share a common neural code.