MIABRIDGE - Mental Imagery and Aphantasia: Bridging Philosophy and Neuroscience

Mental imagery - the capacity to generate perception-like representations
and experiences without external input - is widely believed to be a central
feature of human experience. However, current debates surrounding
aphantasia, namely a strong reduction or complete absence of imagery,
challenge the assumption that imagery is necessary for human cognition.
This 3-day workshop offers a quantitative, interdisciplinary framework for
studying mental imagery and aphantasia. Co-organized by the Paris Brain
Institute and the Institut Jean Nicod, it brings together philosophy,
neuroscience, cognitive psychology, cognitive neurology, and computational
modelling.

The program will include 12 Keynote speakers across neuroscience and
philosophy

Neuroscience: Guilia Cabbai (UCL), Sergio Della Sala (Edinburgh), Nadine
Dijkstra (UCL), Jianghao Liu (Paris Brain Institute), Anna C. Noble (Yale),
Fabrizio de Vico Fallani (Paris Brain Institute)

Philosophers: Margherita Arcangeli (Institut Jean Nicod), Andrea Blomkvist
(Glasgow), Steve Humbert-Droz (Madrid), Bence Nanay (Antwerp), Ian Phillips
(John Hopkins), Lu Teng (ANU)

We now invite the submission of abstracts for poster presentations.