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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]
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.
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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]
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]
Zeman first became aware that some people cannot form mental images when a man (known as "MX") reported that, after minor heart surgery, he had no mental image of people or places when he thought of them. [a] The case was reported in 2010. [11]
In psychology and cognitive neuroscience, pattern recognition is a cognitive process that matches information from a stimulus with information retrieved from memory. [1]Pattern recognition occurs when information from the environment is received and entered into short-term memory, causing automatic activation of a specific content of long-term memory.