How The Brain Shapes Your Reality with Dr Daniel Yon
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Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
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How The Brain Shapes Your Reality with Dr Daniel Yon
Join award-winning psychologist and neuroscientist Dr Daniel Yon for an engaging BSc Psychology taster session at Birkbeck, University of London, exploring one of the biggest questions in psychology: how does the brain create our experience of reality?
Drawing on ideas from his acclaimed book A Trick of the Mind, Daniel will reveal how your brain works like a scientist - constantly making predictions, testing theories, and using past experiences to make sense of the world around you. But what happens when those predictions are wrong?
After exploring these fascinating ideas with Dr Yon, you will see psychology in action with a behind-the-scenes tour of Birkbeck's Psychology laboratories, where cutting-edge research is taking place. The event will conclude with a tour of our central London campus, giving you a taste of what it's like to study in the heart of one of the world's most exciting cities. You will also discover how flexible study at Birkbeck can help you fit university around your life, with our BSc Psychology degree offering both daytime and evening teaching.
Whether you're already considering studying Psychology at university or simply curious about how the mind works, this is a fantastic opportunity to experience university-level psychology and learn from one of the field's leading researchers.
About the Speaker
Dr Daniel Yon is a cognitive neuroscientist, psychologist, and author based at Birkbeck, University of London, where he directs the Uncertainty Lab. Daniel is an internationally recognised researcher whose work has been featured by outlets including the BBC, New Scientist, and Scientific American. He is the author of A Trick of the Mind and has received major awards for his contributions to psychological science, including the Experimental Psychology Society Prize and the APS Janet Taylor Spence Award.
Contact name: Freya Heath
Speakers- Dr Daniel Yon
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