Aphantasia modulates immersion experience but not eye fixation patterns during story reading
Acta Psychologica February 13, 2026 Hina Kawaguchi, Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel, Hakwan Lau et al.
Story reading is often accompanied with mental visualization of the described scenes and events. Recent findings indicate that individuals who report not experiencing any visual imagery (a condition called aphantasia), also report being less absorbed and engaged when reading stories. In the present study, we explored how aphantasics (n = 8) and controls (n = 20) read imagery-rich stories. We...