Aphantasia was initially characterised as a pictorial imaginative deficit, but many people with Aphantasia also report having imaginative inabilities for other sensory modalities, such as for imagined sensations of audition, taste, smell, touch, and of body movements. Moreover, patterns of imaginative inability across different types of imagined experience are individually specific to different...
Abstract Research on mental visual imagery typically relies on vividness ratings. However, vividness is ill-defined as it lacks an objective reference. Here, we present survey results that suggest vividness is nevertheless a robust measure. It explains individual differences of a broad range of subjective experiences, from the detail of mental imagery, the propensity to report having other...