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Thanks for this comment, I also wasn´t aware of the statistics (also if I´m full aphant / aphantasiac / aphantastic [1]? or within the 3.9% with dim/vague menta
by pax 4y ago
Thanks for this comment, I also wasn´t aware of the statistics (also if I´m full aphant / aphantasiac / aphantastic [1]? or within the 3.9% with dim/vague mental images forming capacities). I also wasn´t aware that this is a somewhat new discovery, with research starting ~2015?
> ...in response to reading a frightening story and then viewing fear-inducing images found that participants with aphantasia, but not the general population, experienced a flat-line physiological response during the reading experiment, but found no difference in physiological responses between the groups when participants viewed fear-inducing images (wikipedia)
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Aphantasia/comments/aj7pyc/whats_the_word_for_someone_with_aphantasia/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Aphantasia/comments/aj7pyc/whats_th...