Alex, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology | Researcher in Perception and Memory

Age 54

Alex, Ph.D. is a 54-year-old psychologist who has spent more than a decade studying aphantasia as part of his broader work on perception, memory, and individual differences in cognition. His research focuses on how people describe, organize, and retrieve visual information when they do not experience voluntary mental imagery. Rather than treating aphantasia as a deficit, Alex approaches it as one variation in how the mind represents experience. His work often draws on self-report measures, behavioral memory tasks, and interviews with people who have lived for years without realizing their internal experience differed from others. He is known for being careful with claims, skeptical of easy explanations, and more interested in the practical consequences of aphantasia than in turning it into a clinical label.