[J] [Symptoms: Aphantasia] TIL that scientists have developed a way of testing for Aphantasia (the inability to visualise things in your mind). The test involves asking participants to envision a bright light and checking for pupil dilation. If their pupils don't dilate, they have Aphantasia.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pomt6b/til_that_scientists_have_developed_a_way_of/

https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2022/04/windows-to-the-soul-pupils-reveal-aphantasia-the-absence-of-visual-imagination

Explicit and implicit motor simulations are impaired in individuals with aphantasia (2024)

https://academic.oup.com/braincomms/article/6/2/fcae072/7632431

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