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The critical role of mental imagery in human emotion: insights from Aphantasia
2019-08-06
Abstract excerpt
One proposed function of imagery is to make thoughts more emotionally evocative through sensory simulations. Here we report a novel test of this theory utilizing a special population with no visual imagery: Aphantasia. After using multi-method verification of aphantasia, we show that this condition, but not the general population, is associated with a flat-line physiological response to frightening written, but no...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 788124ca-17fc-507a-9bf8-e0b02345ff9e
- DOI
- 10.1101/726844