aphantasia

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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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3 +1アファンタジア
Ryoko Yamazaki


  

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3 days 3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
アファンタジア


Definition from Wikipedia, Lifehacker:
頭の中でイメージを視覚化することのできない状態

Example sentence(s):
  • そこで湧き上がってきたのは、「アファンタジアの人は視覚的な夢を見るのか」という疑問でした。 - Lifehacker  
Ryoko Yamazaki
United States
Local time: 07:48
Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese
PRO pts in category: 4

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