Jordana Rosenfeld
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Jordana Rosenfeld is a copy editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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Aphantasia, inability to create mental imagery during cognition. The word aphantasia is derived from the combination of the Greek word phantasia, meaning “imagination,” and the prefix a-, meaning “without.” The term was coined in 2015 by British neurologist Adam Zeman. Aphantasia affects between…
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