Secret Science Club: Visual Neuroscientist Susana Martinez-Conde
Visual neuroscientist, author and Scientific American Mind blogger Susana Martinez-Conde talks about perception, deception and illusion at the next Secret Science Club.
Susana Martinez-Conde is director of the Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience at SUNY Downstate, blogger for the Illusion Chasers column at Scientific American Mind, co-author of the best-selling book Sleights of Mind, and organizer of the Best Illusion of the Year Contest. Dr. Martinez-Conde has conducted groundbreaking research on fixational eye movements—our eyes are never still, even when our gaze is fixed on an object—and how these movements affect our vision, perception and visual processing. She also researches connections between art and visual science, and neuromagic, the relationship between neurobiology and magicians and illusionists. The author of over 100 scientific publications, her research has been featured in the New York Times, New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Wired.
Before & After
–Groove to eye-popping tunes
–Try our tricky cocktail of the night, the Sleight of Mind
—Stick around for the brain-bending Q&A
When: Tue., Apr. 14, 2015 at 8:00 pm
Where: The Bell House
149 7th St., Brooklyn
718-643-6510
Price: Free
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Visual neuroscientist, author and Scientific American Mind blogger Susana Martinez-Conde talks about perception, deception and illusion at the next Secret Science Club.
Susana Martinez-Conde is director of the Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience at SUNY Downstate, blogger for the Illusion Chasers column at Scientific American Mind, co-author of the best-selling book Sleights of Mind, and organizer of the Best Illusion of the Year Contest. Dr. Martinez-Conde has conducted groundbreaking research on fixational eye movements—our eyes are never still, even when our gaze is fixed on an object—and how these movements affect our vision, perception and visual processing. She also researches connections between art and visual science, and neuromagic, the relationship between neurobiology and magicians and illusionists. The author of over 100 scientific publications, her research has been featured in the New York Times, New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Wired.
Before & After
–Groove to eye-popping tunes
–Try our tricky cocktail of the night, the Sleight of Mind
—Stick around for the brain-bending Q&A
Buy tickets/get more info now
When: Tue., Apr. 14, 2015 at 8:00 pm
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