Adam Zeman

Adam Zeman is the cognitive neurologist who coined the term “aphantasia” for the inability to form mental images. He is Honorary Fellow, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, at the University of Edinburgh and Honorary Professor of Neurology at the University of Exeter. Adam trained in Medicine at Oxford University Medical School after a first degree in Philosophy and Psychology. His work has been covered by the Guardian, New Statesman, The New York Times, New Yorker, BBC, and Scientific American, among others. He has written for New Scientist, and his books include Consciousness: A User’s Guide, A Portrait of the Brain, The Shape of Things Unseen, and, as co-author, Epilepsy and Memory.