I wonder how that relates to visualizing the development of chess positions. For me it’s kind of in-between imagination and just seeing the board as is (and I seldom can imagine it beyond one exchange of moves).
Also, imagining “trivial” things like sitting on a riverbank with a fishing rod is easier for me than imagining things from, say, a dictionary of botanical terminology. It has always been a pain to the extent that I can’t describe leaf shapes etc. like they are supposed to be described, beyond the elementary level. But that might be a different failing, an inability to sort things accurately. For some reason, I can still use identification keys which require one to choose between several options, even when the key says “the combination of features is different”. I guess people make them as easy to follow as possible, stripping the vocabulary to the basics.
My gaining here is that people without aphantasia still have weakness in creating mental images. Aphantasia people just have more. Writing a visual description, creating a mental image for art, or remembering every moment of life are obviously difficult tasks to normal person, while trained aphantasia person may be able to. In my experience, intention of creating mental image directly turn to the “feeling” of creating the image(most people stops here), which can be scattered easily if I try to look up the image clearly.
Based on unreliable online source, aphantasia comes from the error of response from visual part of brain. Then brain’s memory ability can be unrelated issue. Well, it is intuitive to remember something we know well and vice versa. We can lead to more memory issue.
I wonder how that relates to visualizing the development of chess positions. For me it’s kind of in-between imagination and just seeing the board as is (and I seldom can imagine it beyond one exchange of moves).
Also, imagining “trivial” things like sitting on a riverbank with a fishing rod is easier for me than imagining things from, say, a dictionary of botanical terminology. It has always been a pain to the extent that I can’t describe leaf shapes etc. like they are supposed to be described, beyond the elementary level. But that might be a different failing, an inability to sort things accurately. For some reason, I can still use identification keys which require one to choose between several options, even when the key says “the combination of features is different”. I guess people make them as easy to follow as possible, stripping the vocabulary to the basics.
My gaining here is that people without aphantasia still have weakness in creating mental images. Aphantasia people just have more. Writing a visual description, creating a mental image for art, or remembering every moment of life are obviously difficult tasks to normal person, while trained aphantasia person may be able to. In my experience, intention of creating mental image directly turn to the “feeling” of creating the image(most people stops here), which can be scattered easily if I try to look up the image clearly.
Based on unreliable online source, aphantasia comes from the error of response from visual part of brain. Then brain’s memory ability can be unrelated issue. Well, it is intuitive to remember something we know well and vice versa. We can lead to more memory issue.