9:00 - 9:15 (BST):
Welcome address + coffee
9:15 - 10:30 (BST):
Adam Zeman
9 Chapters of Aphantasia
10:30 - 11:00 (BST):
Break
11:00 - 11:45 (BST):
Christian O. Scholz
Aphantasia and the Unconscious Imagery Debate
11:45 - 12:30 (BST):
Berengere Digard
A Narrative Comparasion of the Lived Experiences of Aphantasia & Hyperphantasia
12:30 - 13:45 (BST):
Lunch
13:45 - 14:30 (BST):
Catriona Scrivener -
EEG Evidence for Fleeing Imagery Representations in Aphantasics
14:30 - 15:15 (BST):
Merlin Monzel
Influences of Mental Imagery at Different Stages of Atkinson's and Shiffrin's modal model: Visual Imagery is Associated with Enhnaced Iconic Mmeory Performance
15:15 - 15:45
Break
15:45 - 17:00 (BST):
Andrea Blomkvist
Investigating the Mmeory Image Through the Lens of Aphantasia
17:00 - 19:00 (BST):
Poster Session
19:00 (BST):
Dinner (own arrangements)
Emma Austin (University of Liverpool)
Episodic memoreis are less vivid and detailed in aphantasia
Elisa Balthasart (University of Liège, GIGA-CRC Human Imaging)
Memory vividness in aphantasia is more strongly linked to gist than detail recognition
Georgina Brighouse (Univeristy of Liverpool)
Memory vividness in aphantasia is more strongly linked to gist than detail recognition
Damien Le Clézio (Lumière University Lyon 2 - Laboratoire EMC)
Solving Spatial Visualization Problems Without a Mind's Eye: An Exploratory Study in Aphantasia
Maël Delem (Lumière Univeristy of Lyon 2 -Laboratoire EMC)
Evidence of a Non-linear Relationship Between Visual Imagery and Alexithymia: Complete Aphantasics Report Typical Meta-Emotional Functioning
William Duckett (University of Cambridge)
Trial-by-trial vividness reveals dissociable memory profiles across aphantasia, reduced imagery, and typical imagery.
İnci Gürel (Fenerbahçe University- Psychology Department)
Aphantasic Thoughts Are Unsymbolized, Emotionally Neutral, and Less Future-Oriented: Evidence from Experience Sampling
Sam Hayes (University of South Wales)
Can classical cognitive testing methods combine with a priming paradigm to serve as an objective identifying method for Aphantasia?
Julie Ji (University of Plymouth)
Seeing is believing: aphantasia attenuates affective, moral, judgment, and motivational responses to mentally constructed hypothetical events
Marloes Mak (Tilburg University)
Individual Differences in Perceptual Experiences: Exploring Associations between Imagery Vividness, Sensory (Processing) Sensitivity, Synaesthesia, and (Subclinical) Psychiatric Traits
Belen Montabes (University of Glasgow)
Decoding sound content in the early visual cortex of aphantasic participants
Gaen Plancher (Lumière University of Lyon 2)
Working Memory of Visual, Spatial and Verbal information in Aphantasia
Janik Rademacher (Univeristy of Bonn)
Electroencephalographic Signatures of Aphantasia
Carl Selby (Univeristy of Exeter)
Temporal Recalibration Theory (TRT): Gated vs constrained aphantasia as state‑dependent precision‑gating
Amir Shapira (Univeristy of Stirling)
Seeing through the mind’s eye: can we see what you see?
Andy Sin (Univeristy of California San Diego)
Does Aphantasia Support Cognitive Phenomenology?
Paulina Trevena (British Society of Clinical & Academic Hypnosis (BSCAH))
‘Aphantasia and Barriers to Therapy: Evidence from Hypnosis Experiments and Clinical Practice’
9:00 - 9:15 (BST):
Coffee
9:15 - 10:30 (BST):
Wilma Bainbridge
How do you Remember Without Visual Imagery?
10:30 - 11:00 (BST):
Break
11:00 - 11:45 (BST):
Laura Speed
The Positive and Negative Impact of Visual Imagery on Story Memory: Memory Accuracy Versus False Memory in Aphantasia
11:45 - 12:30 (BST):
Binglei Zhao
Spatial Navigation Fails Without Visual Mental Imagery: Evidence from Congenital Aphantasia
12:30 - 13:45 (BST):
Lunch
13:45 - 14:30 (BST):
Elena Azanon
Visual Imagery in Face Recognition and Confidence: Evidence from Aphantasia, Testing Enviroment, and Meta-Analysis
14:30 - 15:15 (BST):
Ana Chkhaidze
Visual and Verbal Thought Tendencies Shape Working Memory under Distration
15:15 - 15:45 (BST):
Break
15:45 - 17:00 (BST):
Jorge Morales
Aphantasias: The Plurality of Imageless Minds
19:00 (BST):
Conference Dinner
9:00 - 9:15 (BST):
Coffee
9:15 - 10:30 (BST):
Lars Muckli
Reduced Cortical Feedback Underlies Aphantasia
10:30 - 11:00 (BST):
Break
11:00 - 11:45 (BST):
Yusaku Takamura
Neuroanatomical Alternations in Congenital Aphantasia
11:45 - 12:30 (BST):
Jianghao Liu
A Neural Model of Conscious Mental Imagery and Aphantasia
12.30 - 14.00 (BST):
Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 (BST):
Discussion & Future Direction
15:00 - 15:15 (BST):
Concluding Remarks + Wrap Up