Meet the Team

Reshanne Reeder
Principal Investigator
Reshanne Reeder is a lecturer at the University of Liverpool, and head of the Superlab in the Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Psychology, Institute for Population Health. Creator of the “Ganzflicker experience” and the theory of divergent predictive perception, her research broadly investigates individual differences in visual perception and mental imagery.

Katerina Christodoulou
PhD Student
Katerina is a PhD student at Tilburg University in collaboration with the University of Liverpool. Her research explores how individual differences in mental imagery and sensory sensitivity shape visual perception using behavioral and psychophysical methods.

Emma Austin
PhD Student
Emma Austin is a PhD student and doctoral teacher at the University of Liverpool. Her PhD aims to investigate emotional processing in people with aphantasia using a mix of online surveys, eye tracking studies, and EEG methods.
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Georgina Brighouse
Lab-affiliated PhD Student
Georgina is a PhD Student at University of Liverpool, researching how mental imagery affects individuals in a mental health context, with a focus on aphantasia. Though Georgina is based within the Philosophy department, her research is interdisciplinary and empirically informed, crossing into psychology and neuroscience. Her current aim is to establish aphantasia as a neurodivergence rather than a disability.