aphantasia

Czech translation: afantazie

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16:54 Dec 2, 2019
English to Czech translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general)
Additional field(s): Psychology
English term or phrase: aphantasia
Definition from Merriam-Webster:
The inability to form mental images of real or imaginary people, places, or things.

Example sentence(s):
  • The former president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios says he has a "blind mind's eye". 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. BBC
  • Aphantasia, a term coined by Adam Zeman, a neurologist and professor of cognitive and behavioural neurology at Exeter University Medical School, describes people who are unable to visualise. It affects some 2 to 3 per cent of the population, or around 2million people in the UK. Daily Mail
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Czech translation:afantazie
Definition:
Afantazie je stav, při kterém si lidé nedokážou představit věci, na které myslí.
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Definition from Globe24:
Afantazie je stav, při kterém si lidé nedokážou představit věci, na které myslí.

Example sentence(s):
  • Výzkumníci se v poslední době pečlivě zabývají afanzazií, která se může týkat až jednoho z každých 50 lidí. Jak ale experti poukazují, že jde jen o hrubý odhad. Zdroj: https://globe24.cz/revue/46887-neobvykla-porucha-mozku-bizarni-stav-ovlivnuje-nasi-predstavivost - Globe24  
  • Je to porucha, které se říká afantazie. Tato porucha byla v poslední době zpopularizována programátorem prohlížeče Firefox, Blakem Rossem. - Eugenika  
Dagmar Heeg
Czech Republic
Local time: 19:23
Native speaker of: Native in CzechCzech
PRO pts in category: 4

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