Thanks Aaron, your work looks really interesting. Yes please do submit a proposal - you would need to be able to get to Cambridge though

Yes that sounds like future-oriented hoarding rather than past-oriented. I suppose the objects in both cases help to structure thought, in a way. Would be interesting to assess imagery of future-oriented hoarders

That's a good question, I'm not sure - in one of the papers this paper cites they find hoarders 'perceive throwing away as a threat to memory', the objects are more of a cue, that connect them to their past - so maybe in the same way that non-hoarders keep family photos

Not much. I was being flippant. Maybe 'hard to conceptualise' would have been better.

Great to read of aphantasic art-making here and in the replies. This is an intro to our research on the subject -
theconversation.com/the-art-of-a... - and my website has the peer-reviewed stuff artimescience.org. New research participants are very welcome!

Hello and thank you for reaching out - glad to hear these ideas make sense to you as a non-imager. More to follow!