A new scientific perspective on aphantasia suggests it may be a form of "mental imagery blindsight" rather than a lack of mental imagery altogether.

New research has revealed that people with the ability to visualize vividly have a stronger connection between their visual network and the regions of the brain linked to decision-making. The study ...

When people read a book, they typically imagine the story in their heads. But how do people experience a story if they find it difficult or impossible to imagine what is being described? Cognitive ...

Visual imagery is when your brain creates pictures inside your head and is a big part of how most people process information. But some people aren’t able to picture anything in their minds; this ...

Visual mental imagery refers to the generation and manipulation of visual-like experiences in the absence of corresponding sensory input. It relies on distributed brain networks that overlap with ...

Visual mental imagery has long been a central topic in vision science. Recent research has increasingly emphasized individual variability in the experience of imagery, spanning a continuum from the ...

You may think you know what you like -- how to spend your time or what profession to pursue. But a new study suggests that your pre-existing self-beliefs, as well as cultural stereotypes, may ...

Trauma alone doesn't cause posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); how we process and imagine it plays a key role, according to new research. A recent Baycrest study suggests that having vivid visual ...

We tend to think of writing and photography as separate domains. Writing is all about word choice and sequence and structure; it's about rhyme and rhythm and flow. Photography, on the other hand, is ...