What you'll do
Come and explore the science of misdirection with Dr Gustav Kuhn, Director of Goldsmith's MAGIC Lab and Member of the Magic Circle. You'll find out how technology is being used to study how our perceptual processes can be hacked.
Smoke and Mirrors magic show, Steven Pocock. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).
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Need to know
Location
We’ll be in Gallery 1. When you enter Wellcome Collection, it’s on the left on level 0.
Queuing likely
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About your speaker
Gustav Kuhn
Dr Gustav Kuhn is a Reader in Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and director of the MAGIC (Mind, Attention & General Illusory Cognition) Lab. He has written more 70 scientific papers and a highly acclaimed book: ‘Experiencing the Impossible: The Science of Magic’. He is one of the leading researchers in the science of magic, president of the Science of Magic Association, and a member of the Magic Circle.