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About the Centre

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Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience Seminars

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Illusion of the Fortnight Seminar

an artwork with a phantastic blue human eye surrounded by neuron tendrils, which also resembles a galaxy

Projects and Collaborations

News and Events

  • 13 Sep

    2023 CogX Award

    The Dreamachine Project has won the 2023 CogX award for Best Innovation in Creative Arts. Professor Fiona Macpherson is the co-academic lead on the project.
  • 28 Jul

    Fiona Macpherson’s work featured in the New Scientist's cover story

    Revealed: What your thoughts look like and how they compare to others’
  • 17 Jul

    Heather Annan, PhD Student, Wins Multiple Prestigious Scholarships

    Heather Annan, a PhD student at the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience has won a Kennedy Memorial Scholarhsip to be a Visiting Fellow at MIT for 2023-2024. This follows on the heels of her recent award of a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Summer Programme Scholarship which is enabling Heather to spend several months this summer, 2023, conducting research at the University of Tokyo.
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Public Engagement

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Research and Study Opportunities

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The Illusions Index

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Extreme Imagination Art Exhibition

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