Those who fall part of the latter group have what is known as “aphantasia,” a phenomenon where the mind lacks the ability to conjure mental images. While many effortlessly visualize scenes ...

But Ed Catmull, 74, has the condition aphantasia, in which people cannot visualise mental images at all. And in a surprising survey of his former employees, so do some of the world's best animators.

This phenomenon is called aphantasia, a characteristic where the mind’s eye doesn’t produce visual imagery. Surprisingly, many people with aphantasia go years without realizing their ...

Aphantasia is the term for a mental state in which people experience difficulty seeing scenarios in their thoughts. Some ...

People with aphantasia lack visual imagination. Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn ...

For most of us that's a natural and easy thing to do. But if you have aphantasia you'd find that very difficult, probably even impossible. The condition didn’t even have a name until 2015 ...