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A study comparing the performance of aphantasic and non-aphantasic control participants.
Aphantasia is a neuropsychological condition in which individuals have difficulty generating mental images voluntarily.113 aphantasic and 85 non-aphantasic control participants took part in an online experiment.
This study investigated how a reduction in mental imagery affects verbal memory with a specific focus on false memory generation by comparing the performance of aphantasic and non-aphantasic control participants in a well-established verbal false memory paradigm.
Correlational analyses revealed that higher visual imagery ability was weakly associated with better free recall performance but also more extra-list recall intrusions. However, contrary to expectations, the experimental findings demonstrated no differential effect of aphantasia on veridical or false memory in either free recall or recognition suggesting that aphantasia does not protect against verbal false memory generation.
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