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Overview

Adam Zeman is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with significant contributions in cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, neurology, psychiatry, and mental health. The scientist's work focuses on various aspects of perception, neurological function, and cognitive processes.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Zeman's frequent coauthors include Fraser Milton, Sharon Savage, Joel Pearson, Kealan Jones, and Matthew MacKisack, indicating collaborative work across several facets of neuroscience and psychology.

They have published extensively in reputable academic venues, with multiple publications in the following journals and outlets:

  • Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • Cortex
  • The New Scientist
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Neuropsychologia

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Adam Zeman are:

  • "Phantasia-The psychological significance of lifelong visual imagery vividness extremes" (2020), published in Cortex
  • "Behavioral and Neural Signatures of Visual Imagery Vividness Extremes: Aphantasia versus Hyperphantasia" (2021), published in Cerebral Cortex Communications
  • "Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes" (2024), published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences

These publications highlight their focus on the psychological and neural aspects of visual imagery and perception. Other works associated with related research topics include studies on synaesthesia, autism, and transient epileptic amnesia published in Consciousness and Cognition and Brain Communications.

Best Publications

  • Unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: a new name for the vegetative state or apallic syndrome

    Steven Laureys;Gastone G Celesia;Francois Cohadon;Jan Lavrijsen

  • Epileptic activity in Alzheimer's disease: causes and clinical relevance

    Keith A Vossel;Maria C Tartaglia;Haakon B Nygaard;Adam Z Zeman

  • Lives without imagery – Congenital aphantasia

    Adam Z J Zeman;Michaela T Dewar;Sergio Della Sala

  • Recent insights into the impairment of memory in epilepsy: transient epileptic amnesia, accelerated long-term forgetting and remote memory impairment

    C. R. Butler;A. Z. Zeman

  • Transient epileptic amnesia: a description of the clinical and neuropsychological features in 10 cases and a review of the literature

    Adam Z J Zeman;Simon J Boniface;John R Hodges

  • The syndrome of transient epileptic amnesia.

    Christopher R. Butler;Christopher R. Butler;Kim Samantha Graham;John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges;Narinder Kapur

  • Phantasia-The psychological significance of lifelong visual imagery vividness extremes

    Adam Zeman;Fraser Milton;Sergio Della Sala;Michaela Dewar

  • Loss of imagery phenomenology with intact visuo-spatial task performance: a case of 'blind imagination'.

    Adam Z.J. Zeman;Sergio Della Sala;Lorna A. Torrens;Viktoria-Eleni Gountouna

  • Behavioral and Neural Signatures of Visual Imagery Vividness Extremes: Aphantasia versus Hyperphantasia.

    Fraser Milton;Jon Fulford;Carla Dance;James Gaddum

  • FMRI in patients with motor conversion symptoms and controls with simulated weakness.

    Jon Stone;Adam Zeman;Enrico Simonotto;Martin Meyer

  • The neural correlates of visual imagery vividness - An fMRI study and literature review.

    Jon Fulford;Fraser Milton;David Salas;Alicia Smith

  • A study of oligoclonal band negative multiple sclerosis.

    A. Z. J. Zeman;D. Kidd;B. N. Mclean;M. A. Kelly

  • Consciousness: A User's Guide

    Adam Zeman

  • Transient epileptic amnesia: regional brain atrophy and its relationship to memory deficits

    C. R. Butler;A. Bhaduri;J. Acosta-Cabronero;P. J. Nestor

  • Dualism persists in the science of mind.

    Athena Demertzi;Charlene Liew;Didier Ledoux;Marie-Aurélie Bruno

  • Time to end the distinction between mental and neurological illnesses

    P D White;H Rickards;A Z J Zeman

  • The neural correlates of visual imagery: A co-ordinate-based meta-analysis.

    Crawford I.P. Winlove;Fraser Milton;Jake Ranson;Jon Fulford

  • Persistent vegetative state

    Adam Zeman

  • Functional weakness and sensory disturbance

    J Stone;A Zeman;M Sharpe

  • NEUROLOGICAL SYNDROMES WHICH CAN BE MISTAKEN FOR PSYCHIATRIC CONDITIONS

    C Butler;A Z J Zeman

  • Wider than the sky The phenomenal gift of consciousness

    Unknown

  • Attentional Processing. The Brain's Art of Mindfulness

    Adam Zeman

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. Hodges
John R. Hodges University of Sydney
Sergio Della Sala
Sergio Della Sala University of Edinburgh
Jon Stone
Jon Stone University of Edinburgh
Narinder Kapur
Narinder Kapur University College London
Kim S. Graham
Kim S. Graham Cardiff University
Milan Brázdil
Milan Brázdil Central European Institute of Technology
Ivan Rektor
Ivan Rektor Masaryk University
Martin N. Rossor
Martin N. Rossor University College London
Steven Laureys
Steven Laureys University of Liège
Anna C. Nobre
Anna C. Nobre Yale University

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