Some people can't form mental images. Here's what scientists are learning about the condition known as aphantasia—and why ...

Colour isn't just a physical property; it's how our brains interpret light reflected from objects. Different creatures ...

“In the midrange, you experience the mind’s eye — knowing something is not real, but sounds can trigger some images in your mind. And then you have aphantasia,” Muckli says. “Sounds don ...

The worlds inside our heads can be dramatically different. What does that reveal about how our minds shape our lives, asks ...

One day in 2005, a retired building surveyor in Edinburgh visited his doctor with a strange complaint: His mind’s eye had suddenly gone blind. The surveyor, referred to as MX by his doctors, was 65 at ...

I say: After all. That is because I have aphantasia. I lack a mind’s eye. If you ask me to describe someone I cannot see at that moment, or something, I have no idea how to do it since my mind ...

(NEXSTAR) – How vivid is your mind’s eye? If you were to try to picture an apple right now, can you see it? The shape, the color, the skin, the stem? Or is there no picture at all? Aphantasia ...

By selectively altering brain activity, optometrists trained at the Mind-Eye Institute often help people rebuild disrupted visual processing skills (thus lessening symptoms) and build ...