Publications (peer reviewed)

• Blomkvist, A., and Marks, D. F. (2023) Defining and ‘diagnosing’ aphantasia: Condition or individual difference? Cortex. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945223002307
• Blomkvist, A. (2022) Aphantasia: In Search of a Theory. Mind and Language. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12432
• Blomkvist, A. (2022) Imagination as a Skill: A Bayesian Proposal. Synthese 200, 119. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03550-z
• Blomkvist, A. (2017) Direct Social Perception of Emotions in Close Relations. Phenomenology and Mind, 12. Issue on New Trends in Philosophy. 184-195. https://doi.org/10.13128/Phe_Mi-21117

Public Engagement

• Psychology Now reported on my research on aphantasia (2022)
  
• Who's got aphantasia? Switching the focus from visual imagery (2021) – Junkyard of the Mind
• Not in the mood: Affective Forecasting and Cognitive Architecture (2020) – Junkyard of the Mind
  

Selected Talks

• Episodic Memory for Learning: Insights from AI (European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 2023)
• Parting with Perceptualism: the Neuroscience of Visual Imagery (Imagination and Belief workshop, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 2022)
  
• Imagery and Memory in Aphantasia (Harvard University's Schacter Memory Lab, 2022)
• Imagine that! Aphantasia is an Episodic Memory Condition (Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 2021)
• Aphantasia: In Search of a Theory (Second Annual C.O.V.I.D. Gathering, online)
• Great Expectations: Imagining Future Moods and Emotions (European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Athens, 2019)
• Improving Imagination (The Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society & the Mind Association, University of Oxford, 2018)
• Knowledge Through Controlled Imagination (White Rose Philosophy Forum, University of York, 2018)
• Memory as the Route to Imagination: A Simulationist Account of Affective Forecasting  (Cognition and Philosophy, University of Sheffield, 2017)

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