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Peer-reviewed research papers and studies

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An international estimate of the prevalence of differing visual imagery abilities

Wright et al.2024Frontiers in Psychologyn=9.063

Largest international study on the prevalence of aphantasia and hyperphantasia.

FrontiersPMC
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Lives without imagery – Congenital aphantasia

Zeman et al.2015Cortex 73:378–380

Landmark Paper: Coined the term 'Aphantasia'.

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Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes

Zeman2024Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Review on imagery vividness extremes.

CellPubMed

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Visual imagery differences in the recall of pictures

Marks1973British Journal of Psychology 64(1):17–24

Development of the VVIQ (Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire).

DOIPubMed
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The VVIQ as a psychometric test of individual differences in visual imagery vividness: A critical quantitative review and plea for direction

McKelvie1995Journal of Mental Imagery 19:1–106

Critical evaluation of VVIQ reliability and validity. No DOI or PubMed record exists for this work; it can only be cited via the print journal.

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Assessing vividness of mental imagery: The Plymouth Sensory Imagery Questionnaire

Andrade et al.2014British Journal of Psychology

Development of the PSIQ for multisensory imagery assessment.

PubMedPlymouth University
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Why indecisive trials matter: Improving the binocular rivalry imagery priming score for the assessment of aphantasia

Monzel, Scholz, Pearson & Reuter2025Behavior Research Methods 57(9):248

Improved scoring of the binocular rivalry priming measure for visual imagery.

Aphantasia NetworkPMCSpringer

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Behavioral and Neural Signatures of Visual Imagery Vividness Extremes

Milton et al.2021Cerebral Cortex Communications 2(2):tgab035n=24 Aphantasiker, n=25 Hyperphantasiker, n=20 Kontrollen

Neuroscientific investigation of brain activity in imagery extremes.

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The pupillary light response as a physiological index of aphantasia, sensory and phenomenological imagery strength

Kay, Keogh, Andrillon & Pearson2022eLife 11:e72484

Pupillary light response as physiological marker for aphantasia.

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Multisensory subtypes of aphantasia: Mental imagery as supramodal perception in reverse

Dawes, Keogh & Pearson2023Neuroscience Research 201:50–59 (Epub 2023)

Investigation of different sensory forms of aphantasia.

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A cognitive profile of multi-sensory imagery, memory and dreaming in aphantasia

Dawes, Keogh, Andrillon & Pearson2020Scientific Reports (Nature)

Cognitive profile: Memory, dreams and multisensory imagery.

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What is the Link Between Mental Imagery and Sensory Sensitivity?

2021

Connection between imagery and sensory sensitivity.

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