| Vision loss |
Perception |
Imagination |
| Ophthalmological context |
Residual vision, visual perception, visual experience |
Imagination and imagery in dreaming |
| Self-evaluation (how individuals perceive their own visual impairment) |
Other senses (hearing, touch, smell, taste, echolocation) |
Mental representations (verbal, visual) |
| Visual experience from the past |
Self-perception – perception |
Self-perception – image |
| Awareness of vision loss and associated emotions |
Perception of the surrounding world (social, psychological, biological, spiritual) |
Effect of experience on imagination (vividness of images, colours, etc.) |
| Self-perception in a situation of vision loss (emotionally difficult situation) |
Mental space mapping (reference points, elements in current vision and previous vision, in residual vision) |
Fantasy content |
| Emotional context and coping with the difficult situation of vision loss |
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Mental space mapping (with respect to perception, experience, progression of the impairment) |
