Dounia Hajhajate

Visual mental imagery in typical imagers and in aphantasia: A millimeter-scale 7-T fMRI study.

Cortex April 2025 Jianghao Liu, Minye Zhan, Dounia Hajhajate et al.

Most of us effortlessly describe visual objects, whether seen or remembered. Yet, around 4% of people report congenital aphantasia: they struggle to visualize objects despite being able to describe their visual appearance. What neural mechanisms create this disparity between subjective experience and objective performance? Aphantasia can provide novel insights into conscious processing and...