People with aphantasia lack the ability to summon crisp images in their "mind's eye." But even though they can't visualize in this way, the blueprints for those imaginary images might still be nestled in their brains, a new study suggests.
The work, published in the journal Current Biology Jan. 10, provides early evidence that the brains of people with aphantasia can light up as if they were generating mental images in their primary visual cortex — the main part of the brain responsible for processing visual information. However, these signals may be getting lost in translation.
