Here are the news articles published about our work. Our research in the media 2025The Giant's Shoulder podcastEpisode The Blind Mind’s Eye - 08/09/2025Hyperfixed podcast Episode Third Eye Blind - 28/08/2025Tes MagazineArticle Aphantasia: education’s blind spot in teaching reading - 13/05/2025Aphantasia NetworkInterview and video The Shape of Things Unseen - 07/05/2025TED-EdVideo Can you "see" images in your mind? Some people can't - 28/02/2025The Royal InstitutionVideo The science of imagination - 18/01/2025Quanta MagazineVideo: Aphantasia: Why Some People Can't 'See' Mental Images - 31/01/2025Self MagazineArticle Hyperphantasia Affects About 3% of the Population. Here’s How to Tell If You Have It - 22/01/2025 2024Unilad Article on aphantasia - 18/09/2024Quanta MagazineArticle What happens in a mind that can’t ‘see’ mental images - 01/08/2024Radiolab podcastEpisode Aphantasia - 14/06/2024Nature BriefingArticle Daily Briefing 22 April 2024 - 22/04/2024The Observer / The GuardianArticle ‘Like a film in my mind’: Hyperphantasia and the quest to understand vivid imaginations - 20/04/2024The Conversation Article Aphantasia: ten years since I coined the term for lacking a mind’s eye – the journey so far - 27/03/2024The Guardian Article I can’t picture things in my mind. I didn’t realize that was unusual - 26/02/2024 2023Psychology Today Article Is Aphantasia a Memory Disorder? - 25/10/2023BBC World - CrowdScience podcastEpisode Why can’t I see images in my head? - 16/06/2023Psyche MagazineArticle Aphantasia can be a gift to philosophers and critics like me - 20/03/2023Radio 4 - Curious CasesEpisode The Case of the Blind Mind's Eye - 10/01/2023 2022Behavioral GroovesEpisode Visualize A Horse…But What If You Actually Can’t? - 26/09/2022enGrama PsicoVideo Afantasía:: Vivir sin imágenes mentales - 06/05/2022Vice MagazineArticle How Pupil Size Can Reveal What Is—Or Isn’t—Happening in Your Mind - 22/04/2022TimeArticle ‘What It’s Like to Be ‘Mind Blind’’ – Nayantara Dutta - 08/03/2022 2021Orion magazineArticle ‘Reading in the Dark’ – Jemma Rowan Deer - 29/12/2021Vice MagazineArticle The Condition Where You Have Zero Visual Imagination - 28/09/2021Wired UKArticle ‘Out of Mind’ Documentary - 14/04/2021 2020Brein in Actie – Pharmacologist Peter Moleman’s blogArticle Seeing with your mind’s eye: Not for everyone - 05/11/2020BBC - Science FocusArticle People with aphantasia are more likely to work in a STEM field - 04/05/2020University of Glasgow NewsArticle Exhibition at the University of Glasgow’s Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience - 23/04/2020BBC Radio 4Recording Blind Mind’s Eye - 13/04/2020 2019BBC – Science FocusArticle Aphantasia: What it's like to live with no mind's eye - 14/11/2019CBC Radio - The Doc ProjectRecording Can you picture things in your head? Well, this guy can’t - 14/09/2019New ScientistArticle Inside the Mind’s Eye - 08/06/2019BBC – The One ShowRecording (feature starts at 23.20) - 02/05/2019BBC Radio 4 – All in the MindRecording Listen to the programme - 01/05/2019BBC NewsArticle Aphantasia: Ex-Pixar chief Ed Catmull says ‘my mind’s eye is blind’ - 09/04/2019Not Exactly Rocket ScienceEpisode Aphantasia with Adam Zeman - 08/02/2019 2018ABC – All in the MindArticle Hear ‘The mind’s eye’ - 28/10/2018Scientific American Article When the mind’s eye Is blind - 01/08/2018 2016BBC NewsArticle Aphantasia: ‘I can’t visualise my own children' - 06/11/2016BBC Radio 3 – Between the EarsEpisode The Mind’s Eye - 08/10/2016CBC Radio – Quirks & QuarksEpisode Aphantasia: when the mental image is missing - 24/06/2016New ScientistArticle Blind in the Mind - 23/04/2016Blake Ross' blogArticle Aphantasia: How It Feels To Be Blind in Your Mind (see the original Facebook post) - 23/04/2016 2015BBC – Digital HumanEpisode Imagine - 16/11/2015BBC NewsVideo Aphantasia: A life without mental images - 14/10/2015Article Aphantasia: A life without mental images - 26/08/2015Le Monde – Passeur de SciencesArticle Le cas étrange des aveugles de l’imagination - 28/06/2015New York Times – MatterArticle Picture This? Some Just Can’t - 23/06/2015 2010Discover Magazine – ‘’Article The Brain: Look Deep Into the Mind’s Eye - 23/03/2010 Our collaborators & their media outputs Prof John Onians interviewed on connections between neuroscience and the humanities:Read the article on the Tate website here Prof Fiona Macpherson’s Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience at the University of Glasgow:Visit the research centre's website hereArtist Susan Aldworth’s website:www.susanaldworth.com This article was published on 2025-09-10
