publications

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Try to search “imagery”, “aphantasia” or “attention”.

2025

  1. 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
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  2. att&consci
    Frontoparietal asymmetries leading to conscious perception
    Paolo Bartolomeo*, Jianghao Liu, and Tal Seidel Malkinson
    Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2025
  3. imagery
    Face-, color-, and word-specific patches in the human orbitofrontal cortex
    Jianghao Liu*, Laurent Cohen, Minye Zhan, and Paolo Bartolomeo
    bioRxiv, 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

2024

  1. imagery
    Visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture
    Alfredo Spagna*, Zoe Heidenry, Michelle Miselevich, Chloe Lambert, Benjamin E Eisenstadt, Laura Tremblay, Zixin Liu, Jianghao Liu, and Paolo Bartolomeo
    Physics of Life Reviews, 2024
  2. imagery
    Colors in the mind’s eye
    Paolo Bartolomeo*, Jianghao Liu, and Alfredo Spagna
    Cortex, 2024
  3. att&consci
    Intracortical recordings reveal vision-to-action cortical gradients driving human exogenous attention
    Tal Seidel Malkinson*, Dimitri J Bayle, Brigitte C Kaufmann, Jianghao Liu, Alexia Bourgeois, Katia Lehongre, Sara Fernandez-Vidal, Vincent Navarro, Virginie Lambrecq, Claude Adam, and others
    Nature Communications, 2024
  4. imagery
    Competing models of visual mental imagery: Reverse hierarchy or heterarchy?
    Alfredo Spagna, Zoe Heidenry, Michelle Miselevich, Chloe Lambert, Benjamin Eisenstadt, Laura Tremblay, Zixin Liu, Jianghao Liu, and Paolo Bartolomeo
    Physics of Life Reviews, 2024

2023

  1. att&consci
    The cost of attentional reorienting on conscious visual perception: an MEG study
    Alfredo Spagna, Dimitri J Bayle, Zaira Romeo, Tal Seidel-Malkinson, Jianghao Liu, Lydia Yahia-Cherif, Ana B Chica, and Paolo Bartolomeo
    Cerebral Cortex, 2023
  2. aphantasia
    Probing the unimaginable: The impact of aphantasia on distinct domains of visual mental imagery and visual perception
    Jianghao Liu* and Paolo Bartolomeo
    Cortex, 2023
  3. imagery
    The model-resistant richness of human visual experience
    Jianghao Liu* and Paolo Bartolomeo
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2023
  4. 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

2022

  1. imagery
    Hemispheric asymmetries in visual mental imagery
    Jianghao Liu, Alfredo Spagna, and Paolo Bartolomeo*
    Brain Structure and Function, 2022
  2. imagery
    The connectional anatomy of visual mental imagery: evidence from a patient with left occipito-temporal damage
    Dounia Hajhajate, Brigitte C Kaufmann, Jianghao Liu, Katarzyna Siuda-Krzywicka, and Paolo Bartolomeo*
    Brain Structure and Function, 2022

2021

  1. imagery
    Visual mental imagery engages the left fusiform gyrus, but not the early visual cortex: A meta-analysis of neuroimaging evidence
    Alfredo Spagna, Dounia Hajhajate, Jianghao Liu, and Paolo Bartolomeo*
    Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021

2020

  1. imagery
    Assessing the causal role of early visual areas in visual mental imagery
    Paolo Bartolomeo*, Dounia Hajhajate, Jianghao Liu, and Alfredo Spagna
    Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020