Topic: bilateral hippocampi

Mounting evidence suggests that autobiographical memory is crucially dependent on our ability to construct visual mental images. Indeed, we have found previously that aphantasics (people who cannot construct mental images) have more difficulties to recall personal memories than controls and that aphantasics showed decreased hippocampal activation during autobiographical memory. While aphantasia is a subjective condition of deficient mental imagery, in a follow-up study, we examine the neural correlates of autobiographical memory in a very rare patient population, people who are blind from birt