aphantasia

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16:54 Dec 2, 2019
English to Slovak translations [PRO]
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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4absencia fantázie (afantázia)
Alžbeta Takácsová


  

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absencia fantázie (afantázia)


Definition from ZRIEDKAVOSŤ TÝKAJÚCA SA FANTÁZIE, KT:
Absenciu fantázie prvýkrát dostal do povedomia ľudí už v roku 1880 Francis Galton. Znova sa o nej začalo hovoriť v roku 2005. Nemenovaný pacient navštívil ordináciu neurológa profesora Adama Zemana z Exeterskej univerzity. Po krátkej intervencii si pacient uvedomil, že si vo svojej mysli nedokáže vybaviť nijaký obraz. Akoby sa náhle ocitol v tme.

Example sentence(s):
  • Blíže ji popsal až v roce 2005 Adam Zeman, profesor kognitivní a behaviorální neurologie působíci na Universitě Exeter ve Velké Británii, který ji také dal pojmenování Afantasia nebo aglicky Aphantasia (absence fantazie, představivosti). - Afantasia. Jak umí zkazit prodej nemovi  
Alžbeta Takácsová
Slovakia
Local time: 22:12
Native speaker of: Native in SlovakSlovak
PRO pts in category: 64
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