
Extreme Imagination
News and Links
This page contains links to main research output of the Extreme Imagination team, as well as case studies; aphantasia and hyperphantasia covered in mainstream, science and radio news; as well as links to apantasia dn hyperphantasia projects not directly affiliated with the Extreme Imagination team.
Research output
Main publications associated with the Eye's Mind researchZeman et al, Reflections on aphantasia 2016
MacKisack, Differential Imagery Experience 2016

MacKisack, Artists with Aphantasia 2019

Milton et al, Neural correlates of visual imagery

Macpherson, Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory

Psychological significance of lifelong visual imagery
Onians, Neuro Ways of Seeing 2008
Radio
Extreme imagination covered on radio and podcasts by researchers, artists and social commentatorsCBC Radio, When the Mental Image is Missing
CBC Radio, Can You Picture Things in Your Head
BBC Radio, All in the Mind
ABC Radio, All in the Mind - Mind's Eye
BBC Radio, The Digital Human
BBC Radio, Between the Ears
Not Exactly Rocket Science Podcast
Video
Video explanations of extreme imagination research, most of them citing Extreme Imagination team's researchSci Show - New Insights Into 'The Mind's Eye'
Brain Craft - Aphantasia Explained
TedX - Seeing the World Without a Mind's Eye
Amy Right Meow - Aphantastic Visual Artist
National Post - Aphantasia Explained
Brain Facts - Blind Mind's Eye
Extreme imagination in the news
News articles about the extreme imagination research from around the world
New York Times: Picture This? Some Just Can't
The Guardian: Disney Animator Draws Blank On His Own Creation

Sungkyunkwan News: A Blind Mind’s Eye - Aphantasia

Exeter Observer: Extreme Imagination

The Guardian: If you can't imagine things, how can you learn?

UK scientists term inability to visualize memories ‘aphantasia'
Le Monde, Aveugles de l'Imagination
Extreme imagination in science news
Articles about the extreme imagination research from science news magazines around the world
Scientific American, When the Mind's Eye is Blind
Science Focus, Life with no Mind's Eye
New Scientist, Inside the Mind's Eye
Discover Magazine, Look Deep into the Mind's Eye

Science Explorer: Some People are Born Without a "Mind's Eye"

World-first brain imaging study to understand mind blindness

Science ABC: What Is Aphantasia?

An Overview of Aphantasia: When You Can't See Images in Your Mind

Can't count sheep? You could have aphantasia
Case studies
Articles taking a deep dive into aphantastic and hyperphantastic individual case studiesAldworth, What is Visual Imagination? Survey of artists
Ex-Pixar Chief Ed Catmul 'My Mind's Eye is Blind'
Aphantasia: ‘I Can’t Visualise My Own Children’
Aphantasia: A life without mental images
Artist Anna Ochoa: Blind in the Mind

Notes on an Aphantastic Artist

Blake Ross, Founder of Firefox: How It Feels To Be Blind in the Mind
Christina Farr Explains What it Feels Like To Be Blind in One's Mind

Neurocritic: The Shock of the Unknown in Aphantasia
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous ways to reach extreme imagination research, networks and postsExeter Sister Website - Eye's Mind
Aphantasia Network (Not Affiliated)
