Aphantasia

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−	'''Aphantasia''' is a neurological condition<ref>{{Cite web| last1 = editor| first1 = James Gallagher Health| last2 = website| first2 = BBC News| title = Aphantasia: A life without mental images| work = BBC News| accessdate = 2015-08-26| url = http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34039054}}</ref> where a person does not possess a functioning [[mind's eye]]. This has been confirmed by MRI results of the areas of the brain which does not light up in studies done on people suffering from this condition. The phenomenon was first described by [[Francis Galton]] in 1880,<ref>{{cite journal |last=Galton |first=Francis |date=19 July 1880 |title=Statistics of Mental Imagery |url=http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Galton/imagery.htm |journal=Mind |publisher=Oxford Journals |volume=os-V |issue=19 |pages=301–318 |doi=10.1093/mind/os-V.19.301 |access-date=26 April 2016}}</ref> but remained largely unstudied until 2015, when it was termed ''aphantasia'' by a team led by Prof. Adam Zeman of the [[University of Exeter|University of Exeter Medical School]].<ref>{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.05.019| issn = 0010-9452| last1 = Zeman| first1 = Adam| last2 = Dewar| first2 = Michaela| last3 = Della Sala| first3 = Sergio| title = Lives without imagery – Congenital aphantasia| journal = Cortex| accessdate = 2015-06-24| url = http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945215001781}}</ref> Further studies are under way.<ref>{{Cite news| issn = 0362-4331| last = Zimmer| first = Carl| title = Picture This? Some Just Can’t| work = The New York Times| accessdate = 2015-06-24| date = 2015-06-22| url = http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/23/science/aphantasia-minds-eye-blind.html}}</ref>	+	'''Aphantasia''' is a hypothesized neurological condition<ref>{{Cite web| last1 = editor| first1 = James Gallagher Health| last2 = website| first2 = BBC News| title = Aphantasia: A life without mental images| work = BBC News| accessdate = 2015-08-26| url = http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34039054}}</ref> where a person does not possess a functioning [[mind's eye]]. The phenomenon was first described by [[Francis Galton]] in 1880,<ref>{{cite journal |last=Galton |first=Francis |date=19 July 1880 |title=Statistics of Mental Imagery |url=http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Galton/imagery.htm |journal=Mind |publisher=Oxford Journals |volume=os-V |issue=19 |pages=301–318 |doi=10.1093/mind/os-V.19.301 |access-date=26 April 2016}}</ref> but remained largely unstudied until 2015, when it was termed ''aphantasia'' by a team led by Prof. Adam Zeman of the [[University of Exeter|University of Exeter Medical School]].<ref>{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.05.019| issn = 0010-9452| last1 = Zeman| first1 = Adam| last2 = Dewar| first2 = Michaela| last3 = Della Sala| first3 = Sergio| title = Lives without imagery – Congenital aphantasia| journal = Cortex| accessdate = 2015-06-24| url = http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945215001781}}</ref> Further studies are being planned.<ref>{{Cite news| issn = 0362-4331| last = Zimmer| first = Carl| title = Picture This? Some Just Can’t| work = The New York Times| accessdate = 2015-06-24| date = 2015-06-22| url = http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/23/science/aphantasia-minds-eye-blind.html}}</ref>
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