GM Skeptics

Each month the Greater Manchester Skeptics meet at TV21 for an evening of lectures and entertaining debate

Thursday 13th June 2013
@ 7.30pm

Dr Rebecca Lawson
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Liverpool

Dr. Rebecca Lawson completed a PhD on human visual object recognition at the University of Birmingham and then a post-doc at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
Her research investigates how the human brain perceives, remembers and creates the shape of 3D objects, and she compares object recognition by vision and by touch.
In addition, she tries to find out what people believe about how their visual system works. Specifically, she has found that many people make striking and systematic errors when they try to predict what they will be able to see in mirrors and windows.
Finally, she looks at people's explanations of how common, everyday objects - like bicycles, cranes and greenhouses - function and the surprising mistakes that people make.