April 2021
Professor Adam Zeman – When the mind is dark, making art is a thrilling way to see – Aeon
Professor Adam Zeman – Blind Mind’s Eye – American Scientist
May 2020
Publication of Zeman et al, Phantasia – the Psychological Significance of Lifelong Visual Imagery Extremes
Professor Adam Zeman – Eye’s Mind blog post
April 2019
Dr Matthew MacKisack
Artists with Aphantasia: Extended Imagining?
5th April: Extreme Imagination – inside the mind’s eye opens at RAMM
5th – 7th April: Extreme Imagination Conference – documentation available here
February 2019
Prof Adam Zeman on the Not Exactly Rocket Science podcast
‘Extreme Imagination – inside the mind’s eye’ exhibition catalogue published
January 2019
Presentation slides:
December 2018
Extreme Imagination Exhibition announced
August 2018
Winlove et al – The neural correlates of visual imagery: A co-ordinate-based meta-analysis
Zeman et al – The Eye’s mind – Visual imagination, neuroscience and the humanities
February 2018
Extreme Imagination Conference and Exhibition announced
September 2017
Eye’s Mind Research – an update
December 2016
Matthew MacKisack
Differential Imagery Experience and Ut Pictura Poesis in the 18th-century
8th November 2016
Professor Adam Zeman
Blog post – ‘Aphantasia: 10,000 people make contact over visual imagery’
20th – 22nd May 2016
The Eye’s Mind conference – a wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary exploration of the visual imagination – recently took place at the Sainsbury Centre at University of East Anglia, Norwich.
More information (programme, abstracts)
19th April 2016
MacKisack M., Aldworth S., Macpherson F., Onians, J., Winlove C., Zeman, A.
‘On Picturing a Candle: the Prehistory of Imagery Science’
10th April 2016
Matthew MacKisack
‘Ut Pictura Poesis and Differential Imagery Experience’
British Society for Literature and Science conference presentation
26th August 2015
Professor Adam Zeman
Blog post: ‘Aphantasia: Losing the mind’s eye’
24th August 2015
Zeman, A, Dewar, MT, & Della Sala, S
‘Reflections on Aphantasia’
13th July 2015
Susan Aldworth
Preliminary results from a survey of student artists by Susan Aldworth. All text and images © Susan Aldworth, shown with permission of the artist.
3rd June 2015
Zeman, A, Dewar, MT, & Della Sala, S
‘Lives without imagery – congenital aphantasia’
11th May 2015
Adam Zeman
‘The Eye’s Mind’
Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience (PPN) Research Seminar
University of Glasgow
26th February 2015
Matthew MacKisack
‘Neuroscience and the Imagination’
Art & Science – Conference on Empirical Methods in Art History and Visual Studies
University of Vienna