Submitted by Administrator on Tue, 24/02/2015 - 15:54
The Science Festival is a brilliant way to find out about the research being conducted at the University. A range of events, from hands-on activities to lectures, offer both illumination and fun.
The 21st Science Festival will take place from 9 to 22 March, 2015. UNESCO has designated 2015 the International Year of Light and Light-Based Technologies, highlighting the importance of light and optical technologies in the daily lives of people, and so the theme of this year's Science Festival is light.
Members of the Psychology Department are taking part in the Science Festival with some fantastic events, listed below.
Seeing and interacting with our world
This is a hands-on, drop-in event, and includes the following exhibits:
- Understanding social networks
- Does taking a global mind set help do better in school
- Optical illusion games
- The intelligence of the crow family
- Why am I finding hard to think when I am upset
- What does your taste reveal about you?
- Test Your Perception and Emotions
- Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute Display
Location Psychological Laboratory, Downing Site
Date and times Saturday 14 March, 10:00-12:00 and 14:00-16:00
Perception of colour
Expert in the psychology of vision, Professor John Mollon, will give a lecture on the fascinating topic of the perception of colour.
Location Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Downing Site
Date and time Saturday 14 March, 11:00-12:00
The unbelievable lightness of seeing
Dr Andrew Welchman, who is a specialist in multi-sensory perception and 3-D vision, will give a lecture on how people perceive the visual appearance of objects.
Location Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Downing Site
Date and time Saturday 14 March, 14:00-15:00
Ageing artists and creativity
Dr Charlotte Lee and Dr Karen Campbell will discuss artists whose work reveals an increase in creativity with age, and they will explore the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms, explaining how some human abilities endure, and may even be enhanced, with age.
Location Department of Psychology
Date and time Saturday 14 March, 14:30-15:30
In her element
Professor Melissa Hines will talk about gender, brains, and the Power of Pink, with Helen Arney, the clever composer of songs about science. Helen, with her ukulele for backing, will sing a newly written refrain about Melissa's research.
Location Cambridge Union Society
Date and time Saturday 14 March, 15:00-16:00
Brain mechanisms of drug addiction: are abstinence and prevention of relapse realistic treatment goals?
Professor Barry Everitt will give this year's Cambridge Neuroscience Public Lecture.
Location Clinical School, William Harvey Lecture Theatre
Date and time Saturday 20 March, 18:00-19:00