September 5, 2025Consciousness and CognitionOpen Access

Aphantasia and the unconscious imagery hypothesis

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Unconscious imagery may occur in individuals with aphantasia, challenging traditional views on mental imagery.
Individuals reporting no mental imagery still exhibit imagery-based priming, raising questions about imagery experience.
Neural decoding studies suggest imagery-related information is processed in the visual cortex, complicating definitions of unconscious imagery.
Challenges remain in demonstrating that imagery experiences are genuinely unconscious and how indirect processing qualifies as imagery.

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Empirical results suggest unconscious imagery may exist in aphantasic individuals, indicating complexities in perceptual processing.

Mckilliam et al. (2025) studied this question.

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