It’s time to clock-off, and join us again this year for our Christmas celebration of Neuroscience, with Mince Pies aplenty.
Come along on to LJMU’s John Lennon Art & Design Building, at 5:30pm on Tuesday 5th December 2023, without hesitation, deviation or hesitation.
This year’s theme, if you haven’t yet clocked it, is Time Perception!
We’ll be joined by Professor Ruth Ogden (Prof of the Psychology of Time, Liverpool John Moores University), and Professor Rob Lucas (GSK Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Centre for Biological Timing,University of Manchester).
Please RSVP below – it’ll be here sooner than you think!
Agenda
17:30 – Tea, Coffee, and Mince Pies
18:00 – Professor Ruth Ogden – “Why we feel like Christmas comes around more quickly each year”
Humans are not like clocks which perfectly record the linear passage of time. For us, the speed of the passage of time waxes and wanes depending on our emotions, cognitions and actions. In this talk, I will discuss why our sense of time is so vulnerable to distortion, and explore how this impacts individuals and societies.
18:30 – Professor Rob Lucas – ’The importance of seeing slowly’
It’s just 20 years since the discovery that photoreception in the mammalian retina is not restricted to rods and cones. I will summarise our work exploring what the newly discovered 3rd photoreceptor helps us not only to see but to tell time.
As part of our mission to increase public engagement with neuroscience research, the LNG is organising a festive celebration of Multisensory Neuroscience, featuring mince pies, presentations from local researchers, and a keynote lecture on Gastrophysics: The new science of eating by Professor Charles Spence.
It promises to be a multisensory feast!
Public Event – Registration Required
Registration includes attendance, tea & coffee, mince pies, & a glass of wine at the drinks reception.
We are asking all attendees to make a small contribution (£5) to the cost of the event.
Thanks to support from our partner institutions, the LNG will be subsidising the remaining costs.
Registration has now closed. There may be some remaining tickets, so if you would still like to attend, please contact admin@lng.org.uk – Tickets will NOT be available on the door.
Volunteers Needed: We encourage anyone, especially Students & Early Career Researchers, to contactstudents.sig@lng.org.uk to help with public engagement activities.
Presentation 1: Dr Sylvia Terbeck, Liverpool John Moores University – “Other People, Vodka, and Propanolol“
Presentation 2: Professor Charles Leek, University of Liverpool – “The Mystery of Human Vision: Is Seeing Believing?“
Presentation 3: Sofia Sacchetti, Liverpool John Moores University – “The Body Seen, The Body Felt”
Ig Nobel Prize Presentation: Professor Francis McGlone, Liverpool John Moores University – “Itching For Answers“
4.30 – Break: Tea, Coffee & Mince Pies
5.00 – Keynote Presentation: Professor Charles Spence, University of Oxford – “Gastrophysics: The new science of eating”
Gastrophysics, the new science of eating, focuses attention on ‘the everything else’ apart from the food that nevertheless still influences the tasting experience, be it in the high-end restaurant or the home: Everything from the colour of the plate on which the food is served, through the weight of the cutlery that is used to consume it (assuming that there is any, which can’t always be guaranteed these days), not to mention the music that happens to be playing in the background. Gastrophysics aims to bring the scientific approach, inspired by the latest neuroscience insights concerning the multisensory integration of the cues from taste, smell, touch, sight and sound, together with the best in culinary artistry, in order to help design more engaging, more enjoyable, and more memorable experiences for diners in the future.
6.00 – Thanks To Speakers / Afternoon Meeting Close
6.15 – Dr Matteo Borrini, Liverpool John Moores University & Liverpool Mahatma Magic Circle – “Experiencing the paranormal”
Psychic mediums claim to have the ability to contact the dead, and some have even intervened in missing persons or murder investigations. Dr Borrini, forensic anthropologist & international expert witness, will explain the truth behind the so-called “psychic detectives”, and with his knowledge of magic & mental illusions, he will provide the audience with an interactive experience of paranormal phenomena, demonstrating how our mind and senses can be tricked.
The Bluecoat bar will be open to purchase additional drinks.
9.00 – End
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