Blind in the mind’s eye – what it’s like to live with aphantasia
Close your eyes and picture your favorite beach. What does the sand look like? What’s the colour of the sea? If you have a condition called aphantasia you might not be able to answer these questions or even picture the beach. People with aphantasia are blind in their mind’s eye. Our guest in this episode studies this curious condition and talks about how it can affect every day life.
Tim and Cat chat with aphantasia expert Dr Rebecca Keogh, a cognitive neuroscientist and postdoctoral researcher at Macquarie University in Sydney.
In the newest study of Rebecca’s lab the researchers tested how people with and without aphantasia react when they read scary stories. Photo: Unsplash
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Resources:
The UNSW press release about the paper
https://www.futuremindslab.com/
https://aphantasia.com/