by Chris Black
They have a physical tell!!!
>Individuals from both groups showed regular pupil dilation responses to both the light and dark images.
>But then the researchers asked both groups to imagine the same images with their eyes open. Curiously, they found that the pupils of individuals with regular visual imagination would still contract and expand, while the pupils of individuals with aphantasia didn’t change size to a significant level.
>”Our results provide novel evidence that our pupils respond to the vividness and strength of a visual image being held in mind, the stronger and more vivid that image, the greater the pupillary light response,” state the authors of the paper.
The Eyes Can Reveal if Someone Has Aphantasia – An Absence of Visuals in Their Mind t.co/9ZZWkiRiId
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