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Department of Psychology

As part of the Cambridge Alumni Festival 2013, the Department's Professor of Comparative Cognition, Nicky Clayton, and Mr Clive Wilkins, a fine artist and writer, currently Artist in Residence in the Psychology Department, presented a lecture, The Captured Thought, at Lady Mitchell Hall on the Sidgwick Site. The Festival programme describes the lecture as follows:

"Perspective-taking acknowledges that there are multiple versions of the realities we experience both within ourselves and others, past, present and future. In this presentation Professor Clayton and Mr Wilkins argue that seeing determines our ability to navigate the realities we encounter. They also consider how close other animals come to doing this."

The Alumni Festival is a major annual event. This year, over 1,200 alumni and their guests took part in the three-day programme of activities, which began on the 27th September.

Follow Nicky and Clive on their Captured Thought blog and read news stories about Nicky's research here.  Their recent TEDx talk, Conversation Without Words, can be viewed here.