Submitted by Administrator on Tue, 28/07/2015 - 15:19
Hear Professor of Comparative Cognition, Nicky Clayton, describe her passion for birds and dancing in a new British Council podcast. Nicky also talks about mental time travel, tool use in crows, and intelligence in crows compared with other animals. Artist in Residence at the Department of Psychology, Clive Wilkins, describes how he and Nicky met as dance partners, and about the birth of their art-science collaboration, the Captured Thought. Clive also performs a magic trick on air.
Nicky and Clive have presented their Captured Thought collaboration widely, to audiences around the UK, in mainland Europe, and in the United States.
Visit the Captured Thought website to see the latest news on this amazing science-art collaboration.
A comment on the podcast from Twitter
Wonderful #sciart @BritishCouncil podcast by @ThoughtCaptured 's @nickyclayton22 (@Cambridge_Uni) & @clive_wilkins https://t.co/j1eNxXmBXE
— ASCUS (@_ASCUS) July 28, 2015
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