Smoke and Mirrors Live Performances

Explore explanations for paranormal phenomena with Professor Christopher French, Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths. You’ll encounter the cognitive biases that affect perception, memory, reasoning and other psychological processes, and reflect on how these biases make us human.

Explore explanations for paranormal phenomena with Professor Christopher French, Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths. You’ll encounter the cognitive biases that affect perception, memory, reasoning and other psychological processes, and reflect on how these biases make us human.

Explore explanations for paranormal phenomena with Professor Christopher French, Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths. You’ll encounter the cognitive biases that affect perception, memory, reasoning and other psychological processes, and reflect on how these biases make us human.

Join engineer, neuroscientist and magician Dr Hugo Caffaratti to discover what the concepts and methods of the art of magic can tell us about our brains. You will see how our expectations shape our perceptions, and the way that our minds works mean that ‘seeing is believing’.

Join engineer, neuroscientist and magician Dr Hugo Caffaratti to discover what the concepts and methods of the art of magic can tell us about our brains. You will see how our expectations shape our perceptions, and the way that our minds works mean that ‘seeing is believing’.

Join engineer, neuroscientist and magician Dr Hugo Caffaratti to discover what the concepts and methods of the art of magic can tell us about our brains. You will see how our expectations shape our perceptions, and the way that our minds works mean that ‘seeing is believing’.

Experience the impossible with Steve Bagienski, a magician, scientist and psychologist who researches how we feel when we watch and learn to perform magic. You’ll watch conjuring tricks and experience fake mind-reading that will reveal how easy it is to believe in magic and pseudoscience.

Experience the impossible with Steve Bagienski, a magician, scientist and psychologist who researches how we feel when we watch and learn to perform magic. You’ll watch conjuring tricks and experience fake mind-reading that will reveal how easy it is to believe in magic and pseudoscience.

Experience the impossible with Steve Bagienski, a magician, scientist and psychologist who researches how we feel when we watch and learn to perform magic. You’ll watch conjuring tricks and experience fake mind-reading that will reveal how easy it is to believe in magic and pseudoscience.