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The first image is bright and photographic, levels 2 through 4 show increasingly simpler and more faded images, and the last—representing complete aphantasia—shows no image at all. Aphantasia (/ ˌ eɪ f æ n ˈ t eɪ ʒ ə / AY-fan-TAY-zhə, / ˌ æ f æ n ˈ t eɪ ʒ ə / AF-an-TAY-zhə) is the inability to visualize. [1]
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The condition where a person lacks mental imagery is called aphantasia. The term was first suggested in a 2015 study. [28] Common examples of mental images include daydreaming and the mental visualization that occurs while reading a book.
Meet two women with unusual ways of experiencing the world: One cannot revisualize people or events, while the other may imagine too much.
Sukarno, the father of Indonesian independence and the first president of the Republic of Indonesia, is said to have had a photographic memory, which helped him in his language learning. [34] J. Joseph Soros, a Hungarian descendant and digital nomad, was said by brother Marcel Soros and father Alynn Michael Soros to possess a photographic memory.
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]
Autobiographical memory (AM) [1] is a memory system consisting of episodes recollected from an individual's life, based on a combination of episodic (personal experiences and specific objects, people and events experienced at particular time and place) [2] and semantic (general knowledge and facts about the world) memory. [3]
Adam Zbynek James Zeman (born September 1957 [1]) is a British neurologist, who coined the term "aphantasia" for an inability to create mental images. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Biography