Pupil dilation can be used to diagnose aphantasia, the lack of visual imagination
This is one of the first reliable pieces of evidence that people with aphantasia are trying to create mental images, but can't.
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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.
Experts believe that “they may have recovered the true origins” of the ancient monument. It is now thought that Stonehenge’s smaller bluestones originally formed an even older, long-lost monument in the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Prof Roberts presents a BBC programme, Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed, which followed archaeologists over years of digs and a decade of research. The discovery is featured in Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed (Adam Stanford/BBC/Aerial-Cam) Professor Mike Parker Pearson’s findings now show “that the original stones of Britain’s most ic...
© Barney Rowe/Tomos TV/BBC Stonehenge discovery an 'astonishing breakthrough', says Professor Alice Roberts Experts believe that 'they may have recovered the true origins' of the ancient monument. Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed is presented by Alice RobertsArchaeologists were "almost on the brink of giving up" when they made their "astonishing" discovery about Stonehenge, TV scientist Professor Alice Roberts has said. Experts believe that "they may have recovered the true origins" of the ancient monument. It is now thought that Stonehenge's smaller bluestones originally formed an even ...