Some People Can’t Imagine Sounds: Anauralia

Some People Can’t Imagine Sounds: Anauralia

Some people can’t imagine a dog barking or a police siren; songs can’t get stuck in their heads; they have no inner voices. Anauralia was proposed in 2021 University of Auckland scientists to describe the little-known condition of a silent mind. Now, the University of Auckland will host a global conference on sounds imagined in the mind, an event intended not just for scientists but also philosophers, musicians, poets and writers.

Anauralia is the phenomenon of an absence of auditory sensory imagery -- not hearing anything in one’s inner ear. Image credit: Vat Loai.

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