This the most general question that my research concerns.

More particularly, I am interested in how two crucial parts of the mind work: memory and imagination. What processes and mechanisms are involved when we remember or imagine? To answer this, I'm trying to build a cognitive architecture of the mind. I take an interdisciplinary approach to these questions where I combine philosophy, psychology, computer science, and neuroscience to find an answer.

Currently, I am interested in unravelling the processes that contribute to the formation of (multimodal) mental imagery, and exploring the downstream effects the malfunctioning of these processes bring.

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Publications

• Aphantasia: In Search of a Theory (forthcoming, Mind and Language).
  
• Imagination as a Skill: A Bayesian Proposal. (2022) Synthese 200, 119. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03550-z.
• Direct Social Perception of Emotions in Close Relations (2017). Phenomenology and Mind, 12. Issue on New Trends in Philosophy. 184-195. https://doi.org/10.13128/Phe_Mi-21117

Drafts available on request.

Some of my research is also published as accessible blog posts on the Junkyard of the Mind – I have one on aphantasia, and one on affective forecasting.

Selected Talks

• 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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