Popular Science
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March 15, 2025
Reshanne Reeder, University of Liverpool
Bridget Mawtus, Edge Hill University
How aphantasia affects mental health treatment, revealing that while aphantasics don't experience visual flashbacks, they still feel emotions intensely, requiring alternative therapeutic approaches beyond traditional imagery-based techniques.
Written for Aphantasia Network
May 23, 2023
Reshanne Reeder, University of Liverpool
Bridget Mawtus, Edge Hill University
Visualization is often used in mental wellness and therapy, but what does this mean for those with aphantasia?
Written for Aphantasia Network
October 24, 2022
Written for The Conversation
Matthew MacKisack, University of Exeter
Reshanne Reeder, Edge Hill University
Promoting the Ganzflicker Exhibit at The Atkinson, Southport, 11-19th November 2022.
June 22, 2021
Pseudo-hallucinations: why some people see more vivid mental images than others - test yourself here
Written for The Conversation
Reshanne Reeder, Edge Hill University
Experiment that creates altered states of consciousness sheds light on an old problem.
"Thinking in pictures" or "blind mind's eye"? The experience of mental imagery in autism
A talk I gave for the Liverpool Autism Hub in June 2025, suggesting that current research focusing on the link between autism and aphantasia may not be the whole story.
The impact of aphantasia on mental healthcare experiences
An invited public talk and discussion for World Mental Health Day 2024, hosted by the Aphantasia Network. Dr Mawtus and I discuss the results of our latest study on the role of imagery in mental health/care in nearly 3,000 aphantasics and imagers.
Differences in subjective and objective imagery
A 6-minute run-through of my work explained in more detail in my video "The diversity of human imagination". Click here for a pdf of the poster (to try out the experiments, click on the running person symbol in the pdf).
The diversity of human imagination
Using interviews and a test battery to classify mental imagery differences. Presented at the Didsbury SciBar, April 2022
Watch 3-minute theory: Why people see different things in the Ganzflicker!
A theory on the interaction between visual flicker and natural brain rhythms