How does your brain decide what it’s seeing, from the physical world to other people?

(What do you see? A duck or a rabbit?)

For decades, scientists have tried to understand how our brains work, not realising that the answer lies much closer to home than it seems.
The latest research in neuroscience and psychology suggests that the brain is doing the same thing that the scientists are: using past experiences to build theories of how the world works, and using these models to predict and make sense of it. Through this process, your brain constructs the reality that you live in.
Daniel Yon takes the research one step further, uncovering how your brain colours your perception of the world, the judgements you make about other people and the beliefs you form about yourself. Daniel will revolutionise the way you think, with transformative applications for how we engage with other communities and approach mental illness.

DANIEL YON

Daniel is an experimental psychologist, cognitive neuroscientist and director of The Uncertainty Lab at Birkbeck, University of London - where he is now Associate Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience. In 2023 he was made a Visiting Fellow of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study and in 2024 he was awarded the Experimental Psychology Society’s EPS Prize for distinguished, independent and original contributions to experimental psychology.

Daniel will be signing copies of his latest book, ‘Trick of the Mind’, which will be available to purchase on the night.

This event will take place upstairs in the Nightingale Room at The Grand Central Pub, Brighton. Unfortunately, there is no wheelchair access to the venue.

• DOORS OPEN: 7:00pm

• TALK STARTS: 7:30pm

• AUDIENCE Q&A: 8:30pm

• BOOK SIGNING: 9:00pm