Aphantasia, imagined experiences and the interconnectivity of human brains (2025-2027)
Abstract
Some people cannot have imagined sensory experiences - Aphantasics. This project aims to reveal pre-requisites for conscious awareness of imagined sensory experiences by measuring and comparing the structural connectivity and power of oscillatory activity in the brains of Aphantasics and Neurotypical people. As an inability to have imagined sensory experiences is a key dimension of the most popular metric of Autistic traits, greater understanding of the benign dysfunction of this psychological dimension in the general population will increase our understanding of Autism.
