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Ep 45 Mindsight Blind: Aphantasia and Inability to Visualize or Imagine?
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Aphantasia is known to occur in a small percentage of people and essentially means that they cannot visualize things in their mind's eye. This may have been an adaptive response to occluded, occulted and limited light conditions as the other perceptions are engaged more fully and the brain scans show even executive engagement when attempting visualization in aphantasic folks. The downside is the executive function is slow for emergent survival response when fight flight is required versus higher faculty engagement in feeling, hearing, tasting and smelling the environment where there is limited light. Just some thoughts.
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Manage episode 389578422 series 3493930
Aphantasia is known to occur in a small percentage of people and essentially means that they cannot visualize things in their mind's eye. This may have been an adaptive response to occluded, occulted and limited light conditions as the other perceptions are engaged more fully and the brain scans show even executive engagement when attempting visualization in aphantasic folks. The downside is the executive function is slow for emergent survival response when fight flight is required versus higher faculty engagement in feeling, hearing, tasting and smelling the environment where there is limited light. Just some thoughts.
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