Jianghao Liu

I'm postdoc on cognitive neuroscience at Paris brain institute.

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a brain explores the brain

jianghaolouisliu@gmail.com

Welcome! Let me guide you through my research journey.

I am a cognitive neuroscientist investigating visual mental imagery and aphantasia, employing advanced neuroimaging techniques such as ultra-high-field 7T fMRI, DTI, and cognitive tasks.

In late 2023, I obtained my Ph.D in Cognitive Neuroscience from Sorbonne University after 4 years at Paris Brain Institute, under the supervision of Paolo Bartolomeo. My doctoral work mainly focused on 7T fMRI studies of visual mental imagery and also included spatiotemporal dynamics of the interaction between attention and conscious report.

My academic path began with a background in mechanical engineering for many years, which later led me to transition into bioengineering, driven by a fascination for the brain’s inner workings.

Below, you’ll find my latest updates, publications, ongoing projects, some Research blogs, social media links (some pages are still under construction).

Feel free to reach out—I’d love to connect!

news

Jun 05, 2025 Upcomming!!! Absence of shared representation in the visual cortex challenges unconscious imagery in aphantasia will be out in *Current Biology!
Jun 04, 2025 :rotating_light: Aphantasia as functional disconnection is out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences!
May 13, 2024 Le Monde reported us! :point_right: Vivre sans avoir d’images mentales… et ne pas le savoir
Jan 15, 2024 We started a new journal club on aphantasia: IRCA Page :sparkles:
Dec 13, 2023 I successfully defended my Phd thesis!
May 23, 2023 I was selected for Next frontiers in consciousness research at National Institutes of Health (NIH, Bethesda, US)!
Jan 23, 2023 I won the EWCN prize 2023 on the European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology in Italy!

latest posts

selected publications

  1. att&consci
    Fronto-parietal networks shape human conscious report through attention gain and reorienting
    Jianghao Liu*, Dimitri J Bayle, Alfredo Spagna, Jacobo D Sitt, Alexia Bourgeois, Katia Lehongre, Sara Fernandez-Vidal, Claude Adam, Virginie Lambrecq, Vincent Navarro, and others
    Communications Biology, 2023
  2. aphantasia
    Visual mental imagery in typical imagers and in aphantasia: A millimeter-scale 7-T fMRI study
    Jianghao Liu*, Minye Zhan, Dounia Hajhajate, Alfredo Spagna, Stanislas Dehaene, Laurent Cohen, and Paolo Bartolomeo*
    cortex, 2025
  3. att&consci
    Frontoparietal asymmetries leading to conscious perception
    Paolo Bartolomeo*, Jianghao Liu, and Tal Seidel Malkinson
    Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2025
  4. aphantasia
    Absence of shared representation in the visual cortex challenges unconscious imagery in aphantasia
    Christian O Scholz, Merlin Monzel, and Jianghao Liu*
    Current Biology, in press, 2025
  5. aphantasia
    Aphantasia as a functional disconnection
    Jianghao Liu* and Paolo Bartolomeo
    Trends in Cognitive Sciences, in press, 2025