new preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... aphantasics reported to feel less 'absorbed' as they read stories, but they dwelled just as much on words that typically evoke imagery. so perhaps they just didn't realize they have (non-conscious) imagery too Ali Moharramipour's 1st paper as senior author 🧠📈

It really seems, reading this paper, that aphantasics are simply misdescribing their internal states, and that we are all being too charitable in trusting their self-descriptions of their own experience.