mental images
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People who are unable to create mental images, or only very weak ones, are referred to as aphantasics.
From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2024
“People are often unaware of how little detail their mental images contain until you ask them about it,” says cognitive scientist John McCoy of the University of Pennsylvania, co-senior author of the study.
From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2023
These are exactly the kind of highly specific, relatively insignificant mental images from childhood that might cling to an anxious, guilt-ridden adult.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2023
I have aphantasia, which is the inability to form mental images.
From BBC • Jan. 22, 2023
When a reader is forced to work through one stale idiom after another, she stops converting the language into mental images and slips back into just mouthing the words.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
