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 Apart from this framing it is e.g. possible that a weak or absent ability to have imagined visual sensations is balanced by a heightened resistance to intrusive thoughts [(Neuroscience2024>Neuroscience Article 12.2024[[https://neurosciencenews.com/visual-silence-aphantasia-28249/|Visual Silence: Exploring Aphantasia Neuroscience December 15, 2024]])] . There is considerable variation in people's ability to experience imagined visualizations, ranging from a lifelong inability (Congenital Aphantasia) to those who report imagined experiences as vivid as actual perception (Hyperphantasia).  Apart from this framing it is e.g. possible that a weak or absent ability to have imagined visual sensations is balanced by a heightened resistance to intrusive thoughts [(Neuroscience2024>Neuroscience Article 12.2024[[https://neurosciencenews.com/visual-silence-aphantasia-28249/|Visual Silence: Exploring Aphantasia Neuroscience December 15, 2024]])] . There is considerable variation in people's ability to experience imagined visualizations, ranging from a lifelong inability (Congenital Aphantasia) to those who report imagined experiences as vivid as actual perception (Hyperphantasia). 
  
 +The most current state of neurological insight is that People with aphantasia still have a blueprint for mental imagery, even if they can’t consciously ‘see’ it. “People with aphantasia actually do seem to have images of a sort, they remain too weak or distorted to become conscious or be measured by our standard measurement techniques” [( :harvard:Matson2025>>
 +authors   : Lilly Matson
 +title     : Mind blindness decoded: people who can’t see with their ‘mind’s eye’ still activate their visual cortex, study finds 
 +publisher : UNSW
 +published : January 2025
 +url       : https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2025/01/mind-blindness-decoded-people-who-cant-see-with-their-minds-eye-still-activate-their-visual-cortex-study-finds
 +)][( :harvard:Chang2025>>
 +authors   : Chang, Shuai et al.
 +title     : Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding
 +publisher : Current Biology
 +published : January 2025
 +url       : https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(24)01652-X
 +)]
  
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