This morning I received my Neuroscience News email and it has the following article which was of interest to me as I have Aphantasia. The article appears in Neuroscience News June 9 edition. Briefly about 4% of the population is born with it unable to see images. For more information see the article on Neurosciencenews.com.
I’m interested in others who have Aphantasia and how they get around it when using memory techniques. John
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I don’t have aphantasia, although I’m lower on the spectrum. I can visual a stick figure of a blurry silhouette, but never details. I don’t really use memory techniques…that’s why I’m here. But I’m usually just too lazy. Instead, I take absurd amounts of pictures, so I can look back on my camera roll, as if that’s a sort of memory.
There is a training method called the “military method” that is supposed to help improve it. I don’t know if it has been researched.
There are some discussions about it here: Search results for 'military method' - Art of Memory Forum