{"id":33,"date":"2024-04-21T06:41:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T06:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/04\/21\/like-a-film-in-my-mind-hyperphantasia-and-the-quest-to-understand-vivid-imaginations\/"},"modified":"2024-04-21T06:41:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T06:41:50","slug":"like-a-film-in-my-mind-hyperphantasia-and-the-quest-to-understand-vivid-imaginations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/04\/21\/like-a-film-in-my-mind-hyperphantasia-and-the-quest-to-understand-vivid-imaginations\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Like a film in my mind\u2019: hyperphantasia and the quest to understand vivid imaginations"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Using fMRI to scan the brains of people at rest, he has found that hyperphantasic people have greater connectivity between the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in \u201chigher-order\u201d thinking such as planning and decision-making, and the areas responsible for visual processing, which lie towards the back of the skull.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy guess is that if you say \u2018apple\u2019 to somebody with hyperphantasia, the linguistic representation of \u2018apple\u2019 in the brain immediately transmits the information to the visual system,\u201d says Zeman. \u201cFor someone with aphantasia, the word and concept of \u2018apple\u2019 operate independently of the visual system, because those connections are weaker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2024\/apr\/20\/like-a-film-in-my-mind-hyperphantasia-and-the-quest-to-understand-vivid-imaginations\">www.theguardian.com\/science\/2024\/apr\/20\/like-a-film-in-my-mind-hyperphantasia-and-the-quest-to-understand-vivid-imaginations<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using fMRI to scan the brains of people at rest, he has found that hyperphantasic people have greater connectivity between the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in \u201chigher-order\u201d thinking such as planning and decision-making, and the areas responsible for visual processing, which lie towards the back of the skull. \u201cMy guess is that if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}