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In 2021, a study found that people with aphantasia have slower reaction times than people without aphantasia in a visual search task in which they were presented with a target and a distractor. But both groups saw a similar reduction in reaction time when primed with the color of the target compared to if primed with the color of the distractor ...
Hyperphantasia is the condition of having extremely vivid mental imagery. [1] It is the opposite condition to aphantasia, where mental visual imagery is not present. [2] [3] The experience of hyperphantasia is more common than aphantasia [4] [5] and has been described as being "as vivid as real seeing". [4]
Most people showing amazing memory abilities use mnemonic strategies, mostly the method of loci. This includes all winners of the annual World Memory Championships and most of the known scientific cases of excellent memories, like Solomon Shereshevsky. Regardless, the following list contains people who have claimed photographic memory. [4]
4 "Claiming to have had a lifelong inability to ... scientific or anecdotal, of people who were cured from aPhantasia? 2 comments. 6 Coined in 2015? 2 comments. 7 ...
Image credits: August_Ocean #7. In high school, a shy girl asked a guy to the prom and he scornfully said no and made his disgust very public. He wasn't exactly the most popular or good looking ...
It seems like most or all of the people who are already on the list are self-reported—which makes sense, since aphantasia is primarily a subjective conscious experience. Even a formal medical diagnosis would most likely rely on self-reporting, albeit in a more formalized way (e.g. the VVIQ test).
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The core issue is that people with alexithymia have poorly differentiated emotions, limiting their ability to distinguish and describe them to others. [15] This contributes to the sense of emotional detachment from themselves and difficulty connecting with others, making alexithymia negatively associated with life satisfaction even when ...