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Perception Archives

How magic works with Illusionist Mark Mitton

World-renowned illusionist Mark Mitton delights and awes the crowd with interactive perception-versus-reality ‘tricks’ while audience votes are being tallied for the winner of BrainStorm 2018. Mark Mitton is a professional magician who is fascinated by using magic to...

Hallucination or Reality? Anil Seth, PhD 11.30.21

How do we perceive the world? Is our reality just a series of controlled hallucinations? Anil Seth, PhD (University of Sussex), Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, reveals the role hallucinations play in our reality, and explores the idea of the...

Amber Hopkins 2020 BrainStorm Neuroscience Pitch Competition Finalist

THE PROJECT: Amber Hopkins and Aaron Schurger (Chapman University) and Tian Lan (California Institute of Technology) are researching intentional binding, or how the brain perceives action and its sensory outcome as being much closer together in time. That gap between...
Alzheimer’s, memories, and your sense of smell analyzed

Alzheimer’s, memories, and your sense of smell analyzed

Why Alzheimer’s Sufferers Seem Lost in Time and Place Texas Monthly explores new neuroscience research at UT Southwestern that investigates “time cells” and “place cells” to help unlock mysteries of how our memories work. Where Do Memories Form...

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