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Deadline for abstract submission: 17/04/2026 (23:59, BST)
IRCA 2026 Call for abstract
**** ABSTRACT SUBMISSION OPEN ****
Abstracts should be no longer than 1000 words (excluding references) and submitted as a Word or PDF file.
Deadline for abstract submission: 17/04/2026 (23:59, BST)
Notification of acceptance for talk or poster: End of April 2026
Conference registration open: Early May 2026
Aphantasia, characterised as a reduction or absent vividness in voluntary visual imagery, has emerged over the past decade as a rapidly developing area of interdisciplinary research.
IRCA – the Interdisciplinary Reading Club on Aphantasia – is now hosting its first interdisciplinary conference on aphantasia in collaboration with University of Glasgow’s Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience. The conference will be held over three days and aims to bring together international researchers from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and related disciplines. The conference seeks to foster discussion on aphantasia, consolidate current empirical and theoretical knowledge, and promote collaboration on future research directions.
The program will include five keynote speakers, as well as contributed talks and poster presentations selected from submitted abstracts.
Keynote speakers:
Wilma Bainbridge
Jorge Morales
Lars Muckli
Adam Zeman
Andrea Blomkvist
We now invite the submission of abstracts for talk and poster presentations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Cognitive and Perceptual Processes
Mental imagery
Perception
Spatial cognition
Memory
Attention
Interoception
Unconscious mental imagery
Inner speech
Representational and Metacognitive Approaches
Representational formats and computational mechanisms
Metacognition and introspective access
Phenomenology of imagery
Neural and Methodological Approaches
Psychophysics
Neuroimaging
Developmental, Clinical, and Mental Health Perspectives
Neurodevelopmental aspects of aphantasia
Clinical and mental health perspectives
Philosophical and theoretical questions
How to define aphantasia
Theories of aphantasia
Historical perspectives on aphantasia
We hope to see you in Glasgow!
ORGANISERS
Andrea Blomkvist (Local organizer)
Jianghao Liu (IRCA)
Christian O. Scholz (IRCA)
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