Can You Imagine That: Individual Differences in Visual Mental Imagery

Differences in mental imagery ability between individuals have been reported since Galton 1880. Despite much progress the field, particularly with advent of neuroimaging techniques like functional magnetic resonance imaging, neural bases and why individual differences exist are not fully understood. Several subjective objective methods proposed utilized to investigate strength visual imagery, even predict content imagery. Recent evidence has shown that people opposite extremes ability, aphantasia hyperphantasia, selective impairments enhancements visualize elements We argue this heterogeneity is generalizable population who relatively normal ability. Current studies overgeneralized specific paradigms stimuli apply all types stimuli, under presumption homogenous. Future would benefit from both increased granularity expanded scope used.