Aphantasia is one of these things that can ... which is why further work with larger sample sizes is now needed. “This research bridges the gap between the seen and the unseen,” Professor ...

who worked with Disney’s animation studio for decades and is credited with designing Ariel from “The Little Mermaid,” is also frequently cited as an example of an artist with aphantasia.

But there are some people who simply cannot form such mental images. They have a condition known as aphantasia, or “mind blindness”—it’s rare, and only affects about 4 percent of the ...

For most of us that's a natural and easy thing to do. But if you have aphantasia you'd find that very difficult, probably even impossible. The condition didn’t even have a name until 2015 ...