About us
We are two young scientists, who learned about aphantasia soon after a second paper was released in Cortex by Pr. Zeman's group at the University of Exeter. We became interested in the condition, and as geneticists we immediately asked ourselves if it could be heritable, and if yes, to what extent.
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Investigators
Laura HuckinsA PhD student at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, she has a background in psychiatric genetics.
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Arthur GillyA data analyst at the Wellcome Trust Sanger institute, who explores large scale whole genome sequencing data.
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Questionnaire
The questionnaire we use is the VVIQ, a standard that has been used for several decades by psychologists and neuroscientists to study visual imagery.
We also store our data (which includes basic demographic information), and we ask participants to leave us their email addresses if they want to take part in further research. This way, we hope to build a database of affected people who are interested in contributing to research in the field. |