Read about the work we do outside of research. 2025 September 2025The Giant's Shoulder podcast episode - The Blind Mind’s Eye August 2025Edinburgh Fringe Festival show, The Provocateurs series - Minds Eyes (7 and 18 August, The Stand Comedy Club)Hyperfixed podcast episode - Third Eye BlindFebruary 2025TED-Ed talk - Can you "see" images in your mind? Some people can't The Royal Institution (charity) talk 'The science of imagination' January 2025Book The Shape of Things Unseen: A New Science of Imagination, Bloomsbury Publishing 2024 March 2024The Conversation article - Aphantasia: ten years since I coined the term for lacking a mind’s eye – the journey so far 2022 September 2022Behavioral Grooves podcast episode - Visualize A Horse…But What If You Actually Can’t? May 2022enGrama Psico interview - Afantasía:: Vivir sin imágenes mentales 2021 April 2021Professor Adam Zeman – When the mind is dark, making art is a thrilling way to see – AeonProfessor Adam Zeman – Blind Mind’s Eye – American Scientist 2020 May 2020Professor Adam Zeman – Eye’s Mind blog postApril 2020University of Glasgow News article about the exhibition - Exhibition at the University of Glasgow’s Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience 2019 April 2019Dr Matthew MacKisack - Artists with Aphantasia: Extended Imagining?5 April – 2 June: Extreme Imagination – inside the mind’s eye opens at RAMM. Read more about the exhibition on this dedicated page: Extreme Imagination Exhibition5 – 7 April: Extreme Imagination Conference – documentation available hereFebruary 2019Prof Adam Zeman on the Not Exactly Rocket Science podcast‘Extreme Imagination – inside the mind’s eye’ exhibition catalogue publishedJanuary 2019Susan Aldworth, Adam Zeman, Fiona Macpherson, and Matthew MacKisack discuss the exhibition Extreme Imagination – inside the mind’s eye.Presentation slides: Document Matthew MacKisack - Tramway Talk - 2019 (2.33 MB / PDF) Document Fiona Macpherson - Tramway talk - 2019 (4.15 MB / PPTX) Document Adam Zeman - Tramway Talk - 2019 (4.16 MB / PDF) 2018 December 2018Extreme Imagination Exhibition announcedSeptember 2018Read Anna Ochoa’s blog post about her experiences of aphantasiaFebruary 2018Extreme Imagination Conference announced 2017 September 2017Eye’s Mind Research – an update 2016 8 November 2016Professor Adam Zeman, Blog post – ‘Aphantasia: 10,000 people make contact over visual imagery’20 – 22 May 2016The Eye’s Mind conference – a wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary exploration of the visual imagination – recently took place at the Sainsbury Centre at University of East Anglia, Norwich.More information (programme, abstracts)10 April 2016Matthew MacKisack (2016) ‘Ut Pictura Poesis and Differential Imagery Experience’, British Society for Literature and Science conference presentation 2015 26 August 2015Professor Adam Zeman, Blog post: ‘Aphantasia: Losing the mind’s eye’13 July 2025Professor Zeman's talk, What is visual imagination.11 May 2015Adam Zeman (2015) ‘The Eye’s Mind’ - Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience (PPN) Research Seminar, University of Glasgow26 February 2015Matthew MacKisack (2015), ‘Neuroscience and the Imagination’, Art & Science – Conference on Empirical Methods in Art History and Visual Studies, University of Vienna This article was published on 2025-09-10
