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SUMMARY:Imagination: the door to identity - Professor Nicola Clayton and C
 live Wilkins\, Department of Psychology\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Paul Ireland
DESCRIPTION:Re-living memories and imagining future scenarios lies at the 
 heart of humanity. The very nature of imagination impedes and disorientate
 s memories\, and diversifies reality. We make use of this to define multip
 le realities\, coexisting side by side. But are we unique among the animal
  kingdom in traveling mentally in time?\n\n*About the speakers*\n\nNicola 
 Clayton is Professor of Comparative Cognition in the Department of Psychol
 ogy at the University of Cambridge\, a Fellow of Clare College and a Fello
 w of the Royal Society. Her expertise lies in the contemporary study of co
 mparative cognition\, integrating a knowledge of both biology and psycholo
 gy to introduce new ways of thinking about the evolution and development o
 f intelligence in non-verbal animals and pre-verbal children.\n\nIn additi
 on to scientific research and teaching\, she is a dancer\, specializing in
  tango and salsa. She is also Scientist in Residence at the Rambert Dance 
 Company\, collaborating with Mark Baldwin\, the Artistic Director\, on new
  choreographic works inspired by science.\n\nHer most recent collaboration
  with artist Clive Wilkins arose out of their mutual interest in imaginati
 on\, and its consequences for consciousness\, identity and memory. They al
 so regularly dance tango together.\n\nClive Wilkins works as a fine art pa
 inter and has exhibited widely\, including at the National Portrait Galler
 y\, London on several occasions. He has also exhibited at the Royal Academ
 y and in private galleries in Cork Street\, London – where he had a one 
 man show in 2007. His work can be found in public and private collections.
 \n\nHe is a performer and magician and is particularly interested in the n
 ature of illusion and the psychology of perception and the chosen ways we 
 adopt to make sense of a strange world.\n\n*Booking*\n\nBooking is essenti
 al as places are limited:\n\n"Book online via the ICE website":http://www.
 ice.cam.ac.uk/what-we-do/madingley-lectures/booking-form
LOCATION:Institute of Continuing Education\, Madingley Hall
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