Program

Derek Arnold (University of Queensland)

Autism and Aphantasia 

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)

Critiquing the Medicalisation of Aphantasia

Sitong Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Dissociating Non-Sybolic Numerical Processing from Symbolic Mapping: Evidence from Cogneital Aphantasia 

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 

Emma Delhaye (Univeristy of Lisbon)

Living Without Imagery: Study of Episodic Associative Memory Strategies in Aphantasia

Berengere Digard (University of Ediburgh)

Mental Imagery in Autistic People with Aphantasia and Hyperphantasia

William Duckett (University of Cambridge) 

Beyond the Blind Mind: Distinguishing Reduced Imagery from Aphantasia in Episodic Memory 

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? 

Jun He (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Function and Structure in Imagery Vividness: Typical Variation Versus Structural Abnormalities in Congenital Aphantasia

Paul Hibbard (University of Stirling)

Defining and measuring perceptual states in vision, imagery and visual memory 

Julie Ji (University of Plymouth)

Seeing is believing: aphantasia attenuates affective, moral, judgment, and motivational responses to mentally constructed hypothetical events 

Xiaonan Li (Univeristy of Chicago)

The Effect of Different Encoding Strategies on Memory Formation between Typical Imagers and Individuals with Aphantasia 

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 

Elaine Mooney (Univeristy of Memphis)

Vividly Imagine as You Read: Voluntary and Involuntary Imagery in a Sentence-Picture Verification Task 

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’ 

Gerda Wyssen (University of Lucerne)

The Spectrum of Mental Imagery in Children and Adolescents: Preliminary Prevalence Estimates of Aphantasia and Hyperphantasia