About us

Organising Committee

Dr Jianghao Liu

Cognitive Neuroscience, Postdoctoral Researcher, Paris Brain Institute, French National Centre for Scientific Research, College de France

website: https://jianghao-liu.github.io/

Dr Andrea Blomkvist

Philosophy and Cognitive Science, British Postdoctoral and Lord Kelvin/Adam Smith Fellow, Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience, University of Glasgow

website: https://www.andreablomkvist.com/

Christian O. Scholz

Philosophy of Cognitive Science, PhD Researcher, institute for Philiosophy II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Amir Shapira

Cognitive Psychology and Psychophysics, PhD Researcher, Face Research lab, University of Stirling

Manon Desandre

Aphantasic artist and independent researcher on aphantasia and the philosophy of imagination, Montpellier Fine Arts School, MO.CO. Esba, France

Website : manondesandre.fr/

IRCA the Interdisciplinary Reading Club of Aphantasia (https://jianghao-liu.github.io/irca/) was co-founded by Dr. Jianghao Liu and Christian O. Scholz in 2024 in order to bring together researchers from many different fields, at a various career stages, to collaborate and share ideas related to aphantasia. Hosting monthly online meetings neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers share their research, discuss methodologies, and explore new ways of developing aphantasia research.

With Dr. Andrea Blomkvist, a member of IRCA, and a researcher in aphantasia, hosting this event at the University of Glasgow, the IRCA group hopes to begin a tradition of collaboration and connection through this conference to enhance aphantasia research through the joining of researchers in a variety of disciplines and at a range of career stages.

Sponsors

The British Academy is a registered charity funded by the UK government and are the UK's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. Investing in researchers and projects both within and without the UK, bringing together individual experts, governments, and businesses to further research from climate change to artificial intelligence!

The University of Glasgow is a public research university founded in 1451 and is now a leading UK University and a member of the Russell Group. The University of Glasgow is committed to tackling and researching issues facing humanity and the world, as well as providing access to education to as many as possible, it has a University of Sanctuary status.

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