mental images
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People who are unable to create mental images, or only very weak ones, are referred to as aphantasics.
From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2024
"Our brain has this remarkable ability to make associations between specific thoughts or mental images and physical sensations," she says.
From BBC • Nov. 3, 2023
But if mental images are indeed pictures, why do they lack such simple details?
From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2023
There are more than a few descriptions in the book that may leave readers with searing mental images.
From Salon • Sep. 18, 2022
When a reader is forced to work through one stale idiom after another, she stops converting the language into mental images and slips back into just mouthing the words.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
