AI RESEARCH
Artificial Phantasia: Emergent Mental Imagery in Large Language Models
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2509.23108v2 Announce Type: replace Can visual imagery be driven solely by language? This idea goes against cognitive science's traditional view that visual mental imagery is only possible through pictorial representations. Large Language Models (LLMs) provide nascent evidence not only that visual mental imagery via propositional-representations is possible, but that it can be robust than human imagination.