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16:55 Dec 2, 2019
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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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Tarja Karjalainen


  

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afantasia


Definition from Elina Rämö, opinnäytetyö:
Afantasia kuvaa osittaista tai täyttä mielikuvien puutetta. Aiemmin siitä on käytetty myös termiä visuaalinen irreminisaatio.

Example sentence(s):
  • "Ajatuksissani ei ole kuvia, ääntä, hajua, makua eikä tuntoa" – Afantasia on elämää ilman mielikuvia - Yle oppiminen  
  • Vaikka termi afantasia on uusi, mielen sokeus ilmiönä on tunnistettu ainakin jo vuonna 1883 julkaistussa yleisnero Francis Galtonin teoksessa Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development, jossa hän kirjoittaa ihmisistä, "jotka ilmoittavat olevansa täysin kyvyttömiä näkemään mielikuvia". - Tiede-lehden blogi  
  • Afantasian kuvailu ei varmasti ole helppoa sellaiselle, joka ei tiedä millaisia ne "mielikuvat" ovat, joita häneltä puuttuu. Ja mielikuvien varassa vahvasti eläville on toisaalta vaikea kuvitella, millaista olisi olla täysin niitä ilman. - Tiedetuubi  
Tarja Karjalainen
Finland
Local time: 17:55
Native speaker of: Native in FinnishFinnish
PRO pts in category: 46
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