Speaker:  Susana Martiez-Conde

Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, Physiology, and Pharmacology

Suny Downstate Medical Center

Topic: Neural Magic: Techniques for Tricking the Brain

Susana Martinez-Conde directs the Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience. Her research bridges perceptual, cognitive, and oculomotor neuroscience. She is best known for her studies on illusions, eye movements and perception, neurological disorders, and attentional misdirection in stage magic. She has pioneered the study of stage magic techniques from a neuroscience perspective and has proposed that neuroscientists and magicians share many overlapping interests, and that both disciplines should collaborate with one another to mutual advantage.