We use imagination constantly in our day to day life, as we reminisce, anticipate, daydream, and read. We live in the here and now much less than we tend to think. Imagination isn't the exception in our daily lives; it's our default setting. Yet only now are we beginning to understand exactly how it works.
British neurologist Adam Zeman coined the term "aphantasia" for an inability to create mental images. Adam is an expert witness and professor of Neurology affiliated with the University of Exeter and the University of Edinburgh.
His new book The Shape of Things Unseen: A New Science of Imagination surveys the creative mind.
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