I am a cognitive neuroscientist studying how the brain creates imagination and consciousness. In particular, I research aphantasia, a condition affecting about 4% of people who do not experience mental images in their mind. By learning from their experiences, I hope to better understand how imagination works in all of us.<\/p>\n
I completed my Ph.D. at the Paris Brain Institute (Sorbonne University) in 2023 and now work as a postdoctoral researcher in Paris. Before turning to neuroscience, I studied mechanical engineering at Arts et M\u00e9tiers ParisTech \u2014 where we learn how to build cars and aircraft. Quite a change, right?<\/p>\n
I was born and raised in a traditional family in China marked by fear, and from an early age I dreamed of escape through reading. Over time, that desire made me independent and brave enough to explore the unknown. My curiosity about my own inner world gradually became a scientific quest to understand how the brain shapes what we experience, imagine, and remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I am a cognitive neuroscientist studying how the brain creates imagination and consciousness. In particular, I research aphantasia, a condition affecting about 4% of people who do not experience mental images in their mind. By learning from their experiences, I hope to better understand how imagination works in all of us. I completed my Ph.D…. View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[334,74],"tags":[],"location":[80,81,82],"class_list":["post-13698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mechanical-engineering","category-neuroscience","location-france","location-ile-de-france","location-paris"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13698"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flocation&post=13698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}