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Nadja Abdel Kafi

University of Bonn

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Blindness reshapes mental time travel: From perceptual scenes to conceptual scaffolds

Nadja Abdel Kafi, Marie Malinowski, Pitshaporn Leelaarporn, Julia Taube, Christine Kindler, Marion Crump, Anja Essmann, Sven Lange, Sarah Dumitrescu, Nicola Mattar, Ella Gutenberg, Sascha Brunheim, Tony Stoecker, Katharina Wall, Bettina Wabbels, , Cornelia McCormick

This study investigates how blindness affects mental time travel, finding that blind individuals construct mental experiences differently than sighted people, relying on conceptual strategies rather than visual imagery.

bioRxiv · Mar 27, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Seeing more than schemas: the vmPFC represents imagery- rich mental scenarios

Sorit Achmed Ali, Pitshaporn Leelaarporn, Rüdiger Stirnberger, Maren Bilzer, Nadja Abdel Kafi, Julia Taube, Yilmaz Sagik, Cornelia McCormick

The paper investigates the role of the vmPFC in representing imagery-rich mental scenarios using fMRI and MVPA, finding it encodes detailed visual content beyond abstract representations.

Neuropsychologia · Jan 17, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience