About

Mental imagery - the capacity to generate perception-like representations and experiences without external input - is a fundamental feature of human experience. This 3-day MIABRIDGE workshop offers an interdisciplinary framework for studying mental imagery and related topics, including recent emerging research on aphantasia — a condition in which individuals report the absence of voluntary mental imagery. Co-organized by the Paris Brain Institute and the Institut Jean Nicod, it brings together philosophy, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, cognitive neurologic and computational modelling. 

Our speakers

We are honoured to introduce 12 keynote speakers — all leaders in philosophical or empirical research on imagination and mental imagery — who will deliver talks and lead discussion forums over the course of this workshop: