Mental imagery might depend on how "excitable" your neurons are

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Summary: The strength of a person’s mental imagery is associated with excitability in the prefrontal cortex and visual cortex. Highly excitable neurons in the visual cortex may reduce a person’s ability to imagine mental images. The findings shed light on how aphantasia, a condition where a person can not imaging mental images, may occur.

Full article: How strong is your mental imagery? It might depend on how ‘excitable’ your neurons are

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@user_7e here’s the original paper…

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That’s a very interesting article, thanks. Sounds pretty contraintuitive at first that a less active visual cortex gives clearer mental images and vice versa. I would have expected the opposite :slight_smile:

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