Can You Visualise This? (Aphantasia Explained)

Can You Visualise This? (Aphantasia Explained)

Try two months of CuriosityStream at http://bit.ly/2shcqIo More BrainCraft! Do You Have an Inner Voice? https://youtu.be/dNQyubd9ARc PRE-ORDER BRAINCRAFT MERCH! http://bit.ly/2DydMqp SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft! 👉 http://ow.ly/rt5IE A lot of us can stop and visualise things in a flash – a rainbow, your breakfast table, your Mum's 80s haircut. But "visualising" isn't the norm for everyone – some people don't imagine things in a visual way. While our "mind's eye" allows a lot of us to see things in our head, other people imagine with words or concepts – in non-visual ways. Aphantasia is a recently named condition where people don't experience visuals in their mind – sometimes the images are to a lesser degree, sometimes they're completely absent. I speak with Andy Lord, a BrainCraft viewer who commented about his Aphantasia on my last episode. We all experience the world a little differently. My Twitter https://twitter.com/nessyhill | Instagram http://bit.ly/1yHCE0a BrainCraft was created by Vanessa Hill (@nessyhill) and is brought to you by PBS Digital Studios. Talking psychology, neuroscience & why we act the way we do. REFERENCES 📚 Zeman, A. Z., Della Sala, S., Torrens, L. A., Gountouna, V. E., McGonigle, D. J., & Logie, R. H. (2010). Loss of imagery phenomenology with intact visuo-spatial task performance: A case of ‘blind imagination’. Neuropsychologia, 48(1), 145-155. http://bit.ly/2zUsK7q Carl Zimmer for Discover, 2010. The Brain: Look Deep into the Mind’s Eye http://bit.ly/1tK3uUV Zeman, A. Z., Dewar, M., & Della Sala, S. (2015). Lives without imagery - Congenital aphantasia. http://bit.ly/2zR74sR! Carl Zimmer for the New York Times, 2015. Picture This? Some Just Can’t https://nyti.ms/2w02LFV Sci Show, 2015. New Insights into ‘The Mind’s Eye’ https://youtu.be/lpK6ZJea9fk Zeman, A., Dewar, M., & Della Sala, S. (2016). Reflections on aphantasia. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 74, 336-337. http://bit.ly/2M2D2G6 Faw, B. (2009). Conflicting intuitions may be based on differing abilities: Evidence from mental imaging research. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 16(4), 45-68. http://bit.ly/2slDDK4
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