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16:56 Dec 2, 2019
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Medical - Medical (general)
Additional field(s): Psychology
English term or phrase: aphantasia
Definition from Merriam-Webster:
The inability to form mental images of real or imaginary people, places, or things.

Example sentence(s):
  • The former president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios says he has a "blind mind's eye". Ed Catmull, 74, has the condition aphantasia, in which people cannot visualise mental images at all. And in a surprising survey of his former employees, so do some of the world's best animators. BBC
  • Aphantasia, a term coined by Adam Zeman, a neurologist and professor of cognitive and behavioural neurology at Exeter University Medical School, describes people who are unable to visualise. It affects some 2 to 3 per cent of the population, or around 2million people in the UK. Daily Mail
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Summary of translations provided
5想象障碍（症）
Jinfeng Mao
4アファンタジア
Vladyslav Golovaty


  

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アファンタジア


Definition from Wikipedia:
アファンタジア(Aphantasia)とは心的イメージを思い浮かべることができず、頭の中でイメージを視覚化することのできない状態を指す言葉である

Example sentence(s):
  • この症状は1880年にフランシス・ゴルトンによって最初に記述されたが、その後現在に至るまでほとんど研究されていない。エクセター大学のアダム・ゼーマン教授（Adam Zeman）が指導する研究チームが研究結果を発表した後になってようやく関心を寄せられるようになった - wiki  
Vladyslav Golovaty
Ukraine
Local time: 16:21
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in RussianRussian
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想象障碍（症）


Definition from 英伦网(bbc):
想象障碍（症）是指不能根据要求指令进行视觉想象。

Example sentence(s):
  • 他们对这种鲜为人知的认知问题进行了描述，并将它命名为“aphantasia”，其中，phantasia在希腊语中意为“想象”，因此该词可以理解为“想象障碍”。 - 果壳科技有意思  
  • 读到一种特别奇怪的障碍，「心盲症」（aphantasia），也可以翻译为「想象障碍」。简单地说，如果一个人看不到现实里的东西，这是「眼盲」。如果一个人闭起眼睛就无法在脑中“看到”事物具体的形象，那就是「心盲」了。 - 观察者网  
  • 我們經常在腦海中浮現不同的樣子，但有些人的腦部卻繪不出任何影像，這種奇特的大腦障礙是為「想像障礙」（aphantasia）。 患上「想像障礙」的人，最主要的徵狀是不可以靠想像力浮現任何影像。我們一般聽到「蘋果」二字，腦中立刻出現紅色蘋果模樣；但有「想像障礙」的人，他們腦海中只會出現「蘋果」二字，或是「蘋果是蔬果類」等現實概念，無法直接連結正確影像。 - cup  

Explanation:
有翻译成心盲症的，但从词源上考虑，想象障碍（症）可能更合适。Be blind in your mind 可译为心盲症。
Jinfeng Mao
Australia
Local time: 23:21
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
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