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TodayHeadline Windows to the Soul: Pupils Reveal ‘Aphantasia’ – The Absence of Visual Imagination - Neuroscience News –
Picture this, if you will: Aphantasia can be detected with an eye-opening look into our pupils. Visual imagination – or rather, the lack of it – can be
This is one of the first reliable pieces of evidence that people with aphantasia are trying to create mental images, but can't.
People who experience visual imagination have pupillary responses that optimize the amount of light hitting the retina and change in response to imagined items. This pupillary response does not occur in those with aphantasia.
A research team has recently found that even before children begin formal education, they possess intuitive arithmetic abilities.