Jianghao Liu
I will soon be joining Stanislas Dehaene’s lab at Unicog, NeuroSpin.

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, white matter tractography, 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 Pr. 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 consciousness.
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
Sep 10, 2025 | ![]() |
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Aug 21, 2025 | New preprint: an attention-based neural model of subjective imagery and aphantasia: my latest theoretical paper |
Jun 05, 2025 | Absence of shared representation in the visual cortex challenges unconscious imagery in aphantasia is out in Current Biology! |
Jun 04, 2025 | Aphantasia as functional disconnection is out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences! |
May 13, 2024 | Le Monde reported us! ![]() |
Jan 15, 2024 | We started a new journal club on aphantasia: IRCA Page ![]() |
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
- att&consciFronto-parietal networks shape human conscious report through attention gain and reorientingCommunications Biology, 2023
- aphantasiaVisual mental imagery in typical imagers and in aphantasia: A millimeter-scale 7-T fMRI studycortex, 2025
- att&consciFrontoparietal asymmetries leading to conscious perceptionTrends in Cognitive Sciences, 2025
- aphantasiaAbsence of shared representation in the visual cortex challenges unconscious imagery in aphantasiaCurrent Biology, 2025
- aphantasiaAphantasia as a functional disconnectionTrends in Cognitive Sciences, 2025