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

But if mental images are indeed pictures, why do they lack such simple details?

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

Frightful sat calmly under her hood, turning the sounds in the pine forest into mental images.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George