Aphantasia

Aphantasia is a hypothesized neurological condition^[1] where a person does not possess a functioning mind's eye. The phenomena was first described by Francis Galton in 1880, but remained largely unstudied until 2015, when it was termed aphantasia by a team led by Prof. Adam Zeman of the University of Exeter Medical School.^[2] Further studies are being planned.^[3]

References

↑ editor, James Gallagher Health; website, BBC News. "Aphantasia: A life without mental images". BBC News. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
↑ Zeman, Adam; Dewar, Michaela; Della Sala, Sergio. "Lives without imagery – Congenital aphantasia". Cortex. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2015.05.019. ISSN 0010-9452. Retrieved 2015-06-24.
↑ Zimmer, Carl (2015-06-22). "Picture This? Some Just Can’t". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-06-24.

External links

aphant.asia - An online community for people identifying as aphantasiacs

Nervous system

Central nervous system

Peripheral nervous system

Somatic	Sensory nerve Motor nerve Cranial nerve Spinal nerve

Autonomic	Sympathetic Parasympathetic Enteric

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