Lectures

The myths and mechanics of memory and mental time travel. A one day workshop at the Institute of Continuing Education. Cambridge. 11th November 2017

  Mental time travel allows us to re-visit our memories and imagine future scenarios. In this day of lectures and co-ordinated workshops we explore the complex relationships between memory and

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Recent Highlights

Seven Myths of Memory~ HOT OFF THE PRESS. The Captured Thoughts latest publication is now available online

Episodic memories are not accurate objective reflections of what happened, nor a permanent record of the past. We don’t remember the scenes we actually saw, nor do we make a

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Past Events

Harrogate Salon North~ with The Captured Thought

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Past Events

Soap Box Science

We don’t remember what happened. What we remember becomes what happened.  ‘Good afternoon we are here to do soap box science and we’re going to talk about ‘Memory as a

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Recent Highlights

‘Exploring the perceptual inabilities of Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) using magic effects’ ~ a collaborative paper first published in PNAS by Elias Garcia-Pelegrin, Alexandra K. Schnell, Prof. Clive Wilkins, and Prof. Nicola S. Clayton FRS ~ featured in Le Monde, June 2021

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Lectures

What’s in a ‘Captured Thought’ Lecture?

We have received much feedback from our recent lecture series. The work centres on an exploration of memory and our ability as a species to travel forward and backwards mentally

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Serendipity

Memories of Sheffield.

Nicky and Clive in action at Sheffield University delivering the Spoon lecture. Einstein supposedly said~ Time only exists to prevent everything from happening at once. Although physical time proceeds forever

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Lectures

The Captured Thought deliver The Moustachio Quartet Lecture~ to the ACWRN (Aotearoa Creative Writing Research Network of New Zealand) Ahi Ka Colloquium, Sir Paul Reeves Building,Wellesley Street Campus, Auckland University of Technology

Our hosts for the event were Dr Thom Conroy, Senior Lecturer in creative writing, expressive arts coordinator and Lisa Samuels, Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

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