Aphantasia: Missing the Mind's Eye

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

Science, Education, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 11.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This week's episode comes to us from our friends at Radiolab! Close your eyes and imagine a red apple. What do you see? Turns out there’s a whole spectrum of answers to that question, and producer Sindhu Gnanasambandan is on one far end. In this episode, she explores what it means to see — and not see — in your mind. This episode was reported and produced by Sindhu Gnanasambandan with help from Annie McEwen. Original music and sound design contributed by Dylan Keefe. Mixing help from Jeremy Bloom and Arianne Wack. Mixing for Science Vs by Sam Bair. Fact-checking by Natalie Middleton. Edited by Pat Walters. Special thanks to Kim Nederveen Pieterse, Nathan Peereboom, Lizzie Peabody, Kristin Lin, Jo Eidman, Mark Nakhla, Andrew Leland, Brian Radcliffe, Adam Zeman, John Green, Craig Venter, Dustin Grinnell, and Soraya Shockley. Science Vs is a Spotify Studios Original. Listen for free on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us and tap the bell for episode notifications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Verses.
0:05.6	So we all know that everyone's different, right?
0:09.1	We're all special snowflakes.
0:11.9	But every now and then, you'll hear a story.
0:14.3	Or maybe if you're a nerd like me, you'll read a scientific paper
0:17.3	that makes you realize that we're different in these ways that you didn't expect,
0:24.3	that you never thought about.
0:26.4	Turns out it's not just who loves Tatei and who thinks she's just fine.
0:32.1	And today's episode is all about this, not Taylor Swift, the idea that we're different in these unexpected ways.
0:41.7	It comes to us from Radio Lab, and it's a story that we heard and we just really loved it and
0:48.0	wanted to share it with you. So we're going to jump in just after the break.
1:03.3	Turning an idea into a small business doesn't happen by accident.
1:05.1	You need to be all in.
1:09.0	At constant contact, we have the digital marketing tools you need to get the word out,
1:10.9	close the sale, raise the funds,
1:15.5	and gather a community around this thing you've built. So let's do this together. Let's send this, share this and shout this from the rooftops. Let's segment this, automate this,
1:20.1	and AI this for real results fast. Let's get out of this what we put into this. Let's build this. Let's
1:25.5	grow this. Let's win this. Get started today at
1:28.3	constantcontact.com. This episode is brought to you by Diet Coke. Time for a Diet Coke break.
1:38.8	Enjoy what you like. Just how you like it.
1:45.0	This is my taste.
1:50.0	What's yours?
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