Below are a list of academic publications on aphantasia and total aphantasia.  If you have something additional that you would like to add, please contact us.

The Eye’s Mind, University of Exeter Medical School: This is the place to start.  Links to several of their research papers are posted below.

The paper: Lives without imagery – Congenital aphantasia.  Adam J.Zeman, Michael Dewar, Sergio Della Sala (2015).  You will need to buy it.  We’ve got it  It’s worth it. “Here we describe the features of their condition, elicited by a questionnaire, and suggest a name – aphantasia – for this poorly recognised phenomenon.”

Loss of imagery phenomenology with intact visuo-spatial task performance: A case of ‘blind imagination’  Adam J.Zeman, Sergio Della Sala, Lorna A.Torrens, Viktoria-Eleni Gountouna, David J. McGonigle, Robert H.Logie (2010).

Statistics of Mental Imagery. Francis Galton (1880).  The original work on the issue.  Our favo(u)rite line: “They had a mental deficiency of which they were unaware, and naturally enough supposed that those who were normally endowed, were romancing.”

Training visual imagery: improvements of metacognition, but not imagery strength.  Rosanne L. Rademaker and Joel Pearson.  Frontiers in Psychology, 2012.

Aphantasia: Experiences, Perceptions, and Insights, by Alan Kendle (via Amazon Smile).