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Feb 21, 2026 Excited to share that I have been nominated as an INS Junior Fellow (International Neuropsychological Symposium)! Looking forward to seeing you in Crete in June.
Feb 20, 2026 We are organising an in-person IRCA conference in Glasgow (UK) from 2 to 4 September 2026. Check our conference website and the Call for Abstract -> here, submission deadline 17/04/2026.
Feb 16, 2026 The Fusiform Imagery Node: Where vision meets concepts in the left temporal lobe out in Neuropsychologia. Our position paper on the FIN (fusiform imagery node) found in imagery.
Feb 12, 2026 An Integration Model of Mental Imagery and Aphantasia: Conceptual Framework, Neuromechanistic Pathways, and Clinical Implications out in Neuropsychologia. A big collaborative effort led by on elaborating a dual-stream attention-interoception model, extending the previous attention model.
Feb 06, 2026 Nature features Aphantasia: this feature news brings together perspectives from global experts, including myself, summarising current knowledge and recent developments in aphantasia.
Feb 05, 2026 A theoretical paper: A neural model of conscious mental imagery and aphantasia out in Neuropsychologia. This is the first neuro-mechanistic model bridging research on imagery and consciousnes.
Nov 19, 2025 A recent recorded talk about “a neural model of conscious imagery” at Consciousness Club (University College London).
Nov 05, 2025 A philosophical blog: Are we aware of neural activity in imagination, in The Junkyard.
Sep 10, 2025 I won the ANT Neuro Prize for the best poster in the workshop SAW 2025! It was a nice trip to Coimbra, Portugal!
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! :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!