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Aphantasia is the inability to create mental imagery.

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Preprint: R-Squared Equal to One: Substituting a Hippocampal Asymmetry Metric for Subjective Measures of Visual Mental Imagery (davidfmarks.net)

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Scientists found a strong connection between the size differences in specific areas of the brain (the hippocampus) and how people scored on a visual imagery questionnaire

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[–] BlueSerendipity8@jlai.lu 2 points 2 months ago

The pre-print is now located here : https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391937801_R-Squared_Equal_to_One_Substituting_a_Hippocampal_Asymmetry_Metric_for_Subjective_Measures_of_Visual_Mental_Imagery