People Who Can't Picture Anything Are Rewriting the Science of Imagination

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Planning areas at the front start the request, memory regions supply the details, and the picture is painted back onto the primary visual cortex, the same screen that real seeing uses, so that how strongly this back region lights up should decide how vivid your mental image feels. Brain scanners can often tell which image a person is imagining by reading activity in this back region, and researchers have taken that as proof that the region builds the image.

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