Mental imagery can be advantageous, unnecessary and even clinically disruptive. With
methodological constraints now overcome, research has shown that visual imagery involves …

The vividness of imagery varies between individuals. However, the existence of people in
whom conscious, wakeful imagery is markedly reduced, or absent entirely, was neglected by …

Innovations and Challenges in Language Learning Motivation provides a cutting-edge
perspective on the latest challenges and innovations in language learning motivation …

For most people, visual imagery is an innate feature of many of our internal experiences,
and appears to play a critical role in supporting core cognitive processes. Some individuals …

Visual imagery typically enables us to see absent items in the mind's eye. It plays a role in
memory, day-dreaming and creativity. Since coining the terms aphantasia and …

The multicomponent model is assumed to form an important interface between a range of
cognitive processing systems including perception and both episodic and semantic long …

Sleep is a universal, essential biological process. It is also an invaluable window on
consciousness. It tells us that consciousness can be lost but also that it can be regained, in …

Visual mental imagery is the ability to create a quasi-perceptual visual picture in the mind's
eye. For people with the rare trait of aphantasia, this ability is entirely absent or markedly …

Although Galton recognized in the 1880s that some individuals lack visual imagery, this
phenomenon was mostly neglected over the following century. We recently coined the terms …

2. Results 21 individuals contacted us because of their lifelong reduction of visual imagery.
We explored the features of their condition with a questionnaire devised for the purpose and …