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‘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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Prof. Nicky Clayton & Prof. Clive Wilkins of The Captured Thought will appear at the Oxford University Scientific Society this week to discuss the psychology of cognitive illusions and why the mind is tricked ~Thursday, 4th February 2021 from 18.30-19.30 UTC2

Taken from the website of the Oxford University Scientific Society … This Thursday we will have two fantastic speakers: Professor Nicky Clayton FRS, Professor of Comparative Cognition in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, and Professor Clive … Continue reading

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Cambridge Centre for the Integration of Science, Technology and Culture~ Online lectures to Universities

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Cambridge Centre for the Integration of Science, Technology and Culture

The Cambridge Centre for the Integration of Science, Technology and Culture (CCISTC), establishes interdisciplinary research projects across a variety of platforms and organises conferences, seminars and programmes designed to bring people from distinct and disparate disciplines together. In light of … Continue reading

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It’s a Kind of Magic.

Harry Houdini famously claimed that no-one can be considered an accomplished magician until they have mastered the cups and balls illusion. With three upturned cups and three balls, the balls are made to perform the logic-defying feat of ‘jumping’ from … Continue reading

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Using magic tricks as a tool to explore the cognitive abilities of Eurasian Jays

Nicky, Clive and PhD student Elias Garcia were featured on BBC’s Look East on Tuesday 3rd March 2020 to discuss their recent experiments exploring the cognitive ability of the Eurasian Jays using magic tricks. See online at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000g17d/look-east-west-evening-news-03032020  and at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIwJOKscoXIContinue reading

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Clive’s Art Lecture~ ‘The Long March to the Mountain’~ delivered in Beijing Language & Cultural University and Beijing Minzu University of China, 2019

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The Captured Thought’s visit to China~ in association with China UK Development Centre~ lecturing and meeting academics in Universities in Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan and Hangzhou.

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The Captured Thought’s latest paper~ Reflections on Endel Tulving’s Spoon Test

The Enigmatic Spoon~painting by Clive Wilkins

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The Captured Thought featured in The Guardian newspaper~ 9th September 2019

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