On the count of three, you will forget this ever happened. Everett Collection/Shutterstock Devin Terhune, Goldsmiths, University of London and Steven Jay Lynn, Binghamton University, State University of New York This piece was originally published in The Conversation Some argue that hypnosis is just a trick. Others, however, see it as bordering on the paranormal Read More…
Category: perception
Tricking the brain: how magic works
Gustav Kuhn is a Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. The main focus of his research is attention and awareness and in particular how attention and eye movements are influenced by social factors. Related to this, he has a keen interest in the science of magic and use magic to investigate a wide range of cognitive mechanisms, Read More…
Mathematical modelling in psychology and the dangers of physics envy.
Prof. Alan Pickering has a Chair in the Department at Goldsmiths. He has researched in many different areas of psychology since the mid 1980s but in recent years his focus has been on the psychobiology of personality traits such as extraversion, anxiety, impulsivity and schizotypy. He uses formal models to capture the biological bases of these individual differences. Read More…
Time in Mind: How your brain tells the time
Dr. Caspar Addyman is a Lecturer in the Department. He is a developmental psychologist interested in learning, laughter and behaviour change. The majority of his research is with babies. He has investigated how we acquire our first concepts, the statistical processes that help us get started with learning language and where our sense of time comes Read More…
Paper Review: Rewards can make time last longer
Dr. Devin B. Terhune is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He applies a range of methods to different facets of consciousness, with a focus on time perception and hypnosis. Here he tells us how it could be that rewards can make time seem to last longer in a Read More…
