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Visual Mental Imagery and Aphantasia Lesions Map onto a Convergent Brain Network

2025-05-23

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<h4>Background</h4> Visual mental imagery, the ability to volitionally form perceptual representations without corresponding external stimuli, allows reliving of past events, solving problems and imagining the future. The absence of visual mental imagery, called aphantasia, has recently been recognized to occur in about 1% of the general population but the cause is uncertain. By studying rare cases of acquired aph...

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Literature Corpus work: aff5a193-e810-5b9a-8087-6f8ec7d69aae
DOI: 10.1101/2025.05.23.25328072

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