Mastodawn

In answer to the song's question: no, but I still love the song.
(Aphantasia hasn't slowed me down from a lifetime of creative solutions.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNNwzMjr4ww
#aphantasia #muppets

Muppet Songs: Electric Mayhem - Can You Picture That?

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺5d ago

A cortical hierarchical mechanism for subjective visual experience during working memory https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.08.717338v1 On mental imagery, #aphantasia; "the cortical hierarchy from IPS to EVC is critical for conscious mental visualization of memory content during WM maintenance"; #neuroscience

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺5d ago

"Rather than dysfunctions in a single brain region, we identified a breakdown in feedback along a cortical pathway from the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) through area V3AB to the early visual cortex (EVC) in #aphantasia."

Rafael Garcia-Suarez Apr 10

Apparently the mind's eye is working by re-using for recollection the neurons primarily used for sight. But what does it reveal on the causes of #aphantasia? Do we have any clue? https://nautil.us/the-biological-basis-of-imagination-1279716

The Biological Basis of Imagination

The Biological Basis of Imagination: Probing the mind’s eye

Anna Anthro Apr 9

#Aphantasia: I don’t see images in my head. Can training give me a mind’s eye? | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2520604-i-dont-see-images-in-my-head-can-training-give-me-a-minds-eye/

I don’t see images in my head. Can training give me a mind’s eye?

Training programmes for people with aphantasia – the inability to create mental images – are challenging neuroscientists' understanding of how we create thoughts

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Yamiyume Apr 8

I feel kind of stupid right about now. I just realized that I have a form of #aphantasia. I knew what that was but I thought „I can rotate 3d objects in my mind so I don’t have that.“

Turns out, that is not actually visual imagination, that is entirely spatial.

When I imagine a scene in my mind, I feel the masses of objects and how they move in space, but there are no details at all. 🫠

No wonder the only way I can draw anything from imagination is by using construction on paper and iteratively refining what I have already put down.

#drawing

The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺Apr 2

Investigating mental simulation during sentence comprehension in #aphantasia www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺Apr 2

Investigating mental simulation during sentence comprehension in #aphantasia https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393226000898

Neil Moffatt Mar 20

Seeing is part of creativity. I dumped 2 #necklaces I had made onto the table ... how many would the ensuing flowing shape grab their attention? I am kind of forced to observe by my very emotional mind! And key is that my #aphantasia makes me very sensitive to things in the real world that I cannot conceive of in my head.

Preston von Gabbleduck Mar 19

Oh honey, if you're having problems explaining how you want a multi-dimensional matrix of information to be 'presented', just imagine how little I understand it when I can't visualise anything you're describing. #aphantasia