Cognitive neurologist, author and jogger, researching disorders of memory in epilepsy and the science of visual imagery #aphantasia
Edinburgh, Scotland
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It was fun, if slightly nerve-racking, discussing its themes on Start the Week -
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00269…
My book, The Shape of Things Unseen - a new science of imagination is out today!
amazon.co.uk/Shape-Things-Un…
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Great to see @ZemanLab in such excellent company among the top Hot New Releases for Science books. Out from @BloomsburyBooks on 16 January, The Shape of Things Unseen is full of the latest discoveries and insights into the imagination...
Thanks so much, Carl, for this excellent article and for your considerable support of aphantasia research!
Amidst election fever, we need imagination more than ever: thanks to Talking Humanities for highlighting our Eye's Mind project :) bit.ly/3p2s3Qe
For precision - if required - best to specify ‘global’ or the sense modality in question; re usages...well, language goes its own way :)
The terms are ambiguous, which can be helpful :) Designed to refer to visual imagery, but applicable to other senses, so best to specify...
Aphantasia watchers might enjoy my conversation youtube.com/watch?v=9k7kEBAr…
with artist Clare Dudeney @CDudeney, part of the Wilderness Art Collective’s exhibition wildernessart.org/, Wilderness for the mind which everyone will enjoy!
Followers of the aphantasia story might enjoy Blind Mind's Eye 9pm, BBC Radio 4 this eve - I'm looking forward to hearing it
fascinating insights into Aphantasia from an author without imagery...
‘I have no mind’s eye’: what is it like being an author with aphantasia? theguardian.com/books/2020/a… #books
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'London will have 7,500 critical care beds by the end of next week – 27 times more than the 275 it had before the epidemic began in January.' From the @guardian today. If correct, absolutely staggering, and an amazing achievement
'When there are so many we will have to mourn' wrote W.H. Auden in 1939 - let's all do our best to keep the numbers down. Listen to this young doctor at 07.18 on Today - bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:b… – stay home, and remember the great beauty of things!
...I just don't think the message is strong or clear enough. We have young people dying alone because no visitors are allowed. There are so many doctors who still don't know...'
Dear Friends, a young medical colleague in London sent me this a few minutes ago - 'Adam I am back at work, it is so much worse than I had imagined, we are palliating people in their 50s. Please, please do everything you can to make sure that people understand....
many thanks to the BNPA for the chance to present this work - and for a wonderful meeting!
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a beautiful campus and friendly faculty as I discovered during an imagery conference last weekend...
Come work with us!
Open-Rank Positions at the Department of Psychology, Bilkent University
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Terrific!
A big congrats to @Becca_Keogh_PhD for winning this years ACNS emerging researcher award! Well deserved! @FMLabUNSW @UNSWScience @UNSW