Recent Highlights

15 top thinkers on innovations that will most change our lives by 2050. Ahead of Hay Festival 2018, WIRED magazine asked writers, including Clive Wilkins and Nicky Clayton of The Captured Thought to paint their vision of the world in 30 years’ time.

Thirty years ago, Stephen Hawking published A Brief History of Time, Steve Jobs unveiled the NeXT Computer, and Die Hard hit cinemas for the first time. The World Wide Web

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Past Events

There’s a very special guest on tonight’s ‘WOULD I LIE TO YOU’ on BBC1 at 8.30.

So even if you don’t usually watch you should tonight! If you missed it you can watch it on BBC iplayer for the next three weeks on http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06wh5z2/would-i-lie-to-you-series-9-episode-8 and also

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Photographs

Some of the key personalities who made ‘The Captured Thought’s’ recent trip to Thailand and New Zealand possible

Clive and Nicky with Barbara and Prof. Mike Corballis in Auckland Lunch with our hosts at the university of Victoria, Wellington. Special thanks to Dr. Rachel Shaw and Prof. K-C

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Past Events

Tuebingen University. Memory and Consciousness~ Plasticity, Brain Rhythms and Sleep. Summer 2014.

An amazing week of world class lectures from: Bruno Bontempi, Penny Lewis, Almut Hupbach, Rebecca Spencer, Loren Frank, Ted Abel, Yadin Dudai, Jacobo Sitt, Todd Sacktor, Cliff Abraham, Jennifer Windt,

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Recent Highlights

Exploring the perceptual inabilities of Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) using magic effects. PNAS May 2021

Posted on June 2, 2021 by clivewilkins Related This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Professor Nicky Clayton. Bookmark the permalink.

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Recent Highlights

Nicky Clayton on BBC’s The One Show.

Prof. Nicky Clayton of Cambridge University and Co-founder of the The Captured Thought discusses the reputation of Magpies in popular culture on BBC’s The One Show. The programme was broadcast

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Serendipity

Adventures in China

The Captured Thought gave a series of lectures exploring Psychology, literature and the arts to explore ways of thinking, memory, perception and the impact of art and technology on life.

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Recent Highlights

The NEW SCIENTIST Christmas Edition.

This year’s December edition will include a feature article describing recent published work undertaken by Professor Nicky Clayton’s lab and lead author Eli Garcia-Pelegrin. The research explores how corvids respond

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