Rethinking the Senses: Uniting the Philosophy and Neuroscience of Perception

Lead Research Organisation: University of London

Department Name: Inst of Philosophy

Abstract

Our everyday understanding of perception is that our sense organs enable us to see, touch, smell, taste and hear. The vocabulary of five distinct senses ramifies through descriptions of thought ("I see what you mean") emotion ("I was touched by her suffering") and aesthetics ("That's not to my taste"). Traditionally, philosophers have also thought that the five senses producing distinctive, separate conscious experiences. Equally, until recently, scientists have also studied each of the senses in isolation. But modern neuroscience is radically changing our understanding. Each sense organ contains many kinds of sensory receptors (think of all the different feelings from your skin). Everyday experiences - watching a film, eating a meal, walking along the street - involve different senses, working together. But most remarkable is a mass of recent research showing highly specific sensory interactions, in which one sense modifies the experience of another. Imagine listening to a syllable (say /ba/) spoken over and over, while watching a video of someone mouthing a different syllable (say /ga/), you actually hear the sound differently. Equally, the voice of a ventriloquist seems to come from the mouth of a doll some distance away. Somehow, what we see changes what we hear, presumably through processes that normally help us to associate sounds and sights correctly.
Flavour provides the most surprising examples of sensory interaction, What we call the "taste" of food and drink is largely determined by smell rather than taste, but it also depends on the temperature and texture of food and drink, and its colour, and even the sounds that accompany eating. For instance, white noise reduces sensitivity to flavour (the so-called "aircraft food effect"). Equally, your sense of your own body can be changed by what you see and feel. If you look at a model hand being stroked with a brush, while your own hand, out of sight, is simultaneously stroked, you will soon feel that the model hand is part of you. The traditional view that information flows in one direction from basic sensation to perception, memory and action, has also been overturned. Recognising a spoken word, a familiar face, or a favourite piece of music draws on previous knowledge. Perception is influenced by memory, expectation, emotion and attention. Further, since our head, hands and eyes are constantly in motion, the brain must somehow stitch together perception from a sequence of sensory "snapshots".
A comprehensive account of perception needs to begin with the relationships and interactions between the sensory modalities that produce our awareness of the world and of ourselves in it. Although the science of perception is moving very fast, it lacks the conceptual framework that philosophical thinking can bring to understanding the relationship between brain processes and experience. Our plan is for philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists to work together in entirely new ways, including planning laboratory experiments together, to help us to understand how the brain puts together different sensory information, under the influence of past experience and expectation, to create the seamless flow of conscious experience, to identify objects and events in the world, to give us an sense of our own body, and to enable us to control our actions. We believe that our work will have wide impact beyond our university departments. It will help in the design of new forms of prosthetic devices to help deaf and blind people, and those who suffer untreatable pain, changes in body image or reduction in the sense of smell. It will inform the rapidly advancing technology of enhancement of sensory experience, cast light on the appreciation of the visual and performing arts, and stimulate new forms of preparation and presentation of food, and new understanding of the way in which people choose what products to buy, what works of art they prefer and what food they eat.

Planned Impact

We have identified three main areas in the arts, private sector and clinical studies, where Rethinking the Senses will help practitioners in their efforts to provide audiences, consumers and patients with better sensory experiences. Our longer-term impact agenda is to raise awareness of public and private actors about the importance of multisensory experiences.

Funded Value:

£1,539,724

Funded Period:

Oct 13 - Jun 17

Funder:

AHRC

Project Status:

Closed

Project Category:

Research Grant

Project Reference:

AH/L007053/1

Principal Investigator:

Colin Blakemore

Research Subject:

Animal science (42%)

Philosophy (14%)

Psychology (42%)

Research Topic:

Cognitive Psychology (14%)

Experimental Psychology (14%)

Philosophy Of Mind (14%)

Psychology (14%)

Systems neuroscience (42%)

Organisations

People	ORCID iD
Colin Blakemore (Principal Investigator)	http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2659-7899
Fiona Macpherson (Co-Investigator)
Ophelia Deroy (Co-Investigator)
Matthew Nudds (Co-Investigator)
Charles Spence (Co-Investigator)

Publications

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Wang QJ (2018) "A sweet smile": the modulatory role of emotion in how extrinsic factors influence taste evaluation. in Cognition & emotion

Reinoso Carvalho F (2017) "Smooth operator": Music modulates the perceived creaminess, sweetness, and bitterness of chocolate. in Appetite

Wang QJ (2016) "Turn Up the Taste": Assessing the Role of Taste Intensity and Emotion in Mediating Crossmodal Correspondences between Basic Tastes and Pitch. in Chemical senses

Wang QJ (2015) "What's Your Taste in Music?" A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Various Soundscapes in Evoking Specific Tastes. in i-Perception

Chen Yi-Chuan (2016) "When sounds speak faster than words'': Audiovisual semantic congruency enhances early visual object processing in PERCEPTION

Simmonds G (2018) 'Show me the goods': Assessing the effectiveness of transparent packaging vs. product imagery on product evaluation in Food Quality and Preference

Mazarakis NK (2014) 'Super-Enrichment' Reveals Dose-Dependent Therapeutic Effects of Environmental Stimulation in a Transgenic Mouse Model of Huntington's Disease. in Journal of Huntington's disease

Nudds, M (2014) A Cultural History of the Senses

Blakemore C (2017) A Danish Neuroscience Initiative

Spence C (2014) A large sample study on the influence of the multisensory environment on the wine drinking experience in Flavour

Artistic and Creative Products
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Title	Closer to Truth - DVD series on Consciousness
Description	A series of conversations on brain, mind and religion. Executive producers, Robert L Kuhn and Peter Getzels.
Type Of Art	Film/Video/Animation
Year Produced	2015
Impact	Public engagement on questions of consciousness and the mind


Title	Contribution to 'Icelandic Dining Experience' - a multisensory banquet
Description	This performance event was the idea of two of our collaborators, Dr Tereza Stehlikova, an artist who incorporates multisensory experience in her work - mainly video art - and Charles Michel, a young Colombian chef, who trained in France, and who works on multisensory aspects of the perception of food in the laboratory of Prof Charles Spence in Oxford. The event, which took place in Black's Club in Soho, was inspired by the expedition of William Morris to Iceland and the work of the founder of the Futurist movement and author of The Futurist Cookbook, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. It consisted of a series of experimental dishes in an extended 'multisensory banquet' (http://www.annabelhuxley.com/blog-1/).
Type Of Art	Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc)
Year Produced	2013
Impact	This event triggered a continuing collaboration with both Tereza Stehlikova and Charles Michel. We have worked with the multisensory art collective, Sensory Sites, of which Tereza is a member, on exhibitions at GV Art (a gallery that specialises in art related to science) and elsewhere. Charles Michel has done experimental work with Charles Michel and has published on a phenomenon of displaced embodiment (the Butcher's Tongue illusion), which he discovered.
URL	https://cinestheticfeasts.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/icelandic-dining-exploration/


Title	Embodied visual illusion : Installation with Glass artist Shelley James
Description	Embodied visual illusion using the 'visual cliff' illusion - presented as part of the Illusion Parade as ECVP 2016 and tested by RTS team
Type Of Art	Artefact (including digital)
Year Produced	2015
Impact	Series of experimental results showing the automatic change in gait due to the illusion


Title	Full-length documentary on general release - Tim's Vermeer (Sony Pictures)
Description	Colin Blakemore was the adviser for, and appeared in, Tim's Vermeer, a full-length documentary that went on general release in the USA and the rest of the world early in 2014. The documentary tells the story of an American software developer, Tim Jenison, who wanted to test the hypothesis of Charles Falco and David Hockney (described in Hockney's "Secret Knowledge", 2001) that many artists, from about 1430 until the middle of the nineteenth century used optical devices (concave mirrors, lenses, the camera obscura etc) to create images of scenes, which were somehow transcribed on to the painting surface. The architect, Philip Steadman of UCL, who was also a consultant for the film, published an acclaimed analysis of the work of Johannes Vermeer (Vermeer's Camera, 2010), with powerful evidence that many of his best-known paintings depended on an optical image. Jenison discovered a possible solution to the fundamental missing step in the argument - the way in which the optical image could be directly compared, point by point, with the image being painted, so as to optimise the match of lightness and hue, as well as the correct geometric form of the scene.
Type Of Art	Film/Video/Animation
Year Produced	2014
Impact	The film was well-received critically and was shortlisted for an Oscar nomination and nominated for a BAFTA. It has also led to a continuing relationship between the School of Advanced Study, Tim Jenison and the team who made the film. There have been a number of visits by the team to London, to talk to experts in the Warburg Institute as well as in the Centre for the Study of the Senses in the School of Advanced Study. It won the award for Best Original Score in the International Film Music Critics Awards and 3rd place in the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards. It was nominated for prizes by the American Cinema Editors, USA, the Satellite Awards and the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards.
URL	http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jan/19/tims-vermeer-review-mark-kermode


Title	Into Darkness & Notes on Blindness
Description	The Rethinking the Senses team has been giving advice to James Spinney and Peter Middleton, two film-makers who have worked with the production company Archer's Mark. They have made a number of successful short documentaries about blindness, and who are planning a number of other films and audio projects documenting the experiences of people who have lost sensory input. Their successful shorts, Rainfall, Into Darkness and Notes on Blindness, are based on the personal audio records of John Hull, a writer and theologian who lost his sight in 1983. We have advised them on an interesting collaboration with RNIB, planning to give audio recorders to The application focuses around a campaign that takes its inspiration from John's diary. We're developing it in partnership with the RNIB. The concept is to give audio recorders to people worldwide, from all ages and backgrounds, encouraging them to document their experiences of sight loss over the next 2-3 years. These testimonies will become part of a resource that will be released alongside a full-length documentary film in 2017, alongside radio broadcasts. Spinney and Middleton hope to involve other organisations (e.g. Apple and Future Cities) in different aspects of this project.
Type Of Art	Film/Video/Animation
Year Produced	2014
Impact	The film RAINFALL won the Best Short Documentary Award at Hot Docs 2013 and was nominated for the ICA Experimental Film Award. The short film NOTES ON BLINDNESS, commissioned by the New York Times, premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and won the Documentary Award at Encounters Short Film Festival. The project involving the collection of audio diaries from many individuals as they lose their sight is aimed at increasing understanding of the emotional and cognitive experience of blindness, and at developing a resource to help others as they enter the experience of losing sight.
URL	http://www.notesonblindness.co.uk


Title	Lucida
Description	Colin Blakemore was an adviser for this video, created by video artist, Suki Chan. The video provides a visual metaphorical account of the formation of the image in the human eye and the way in which information is transmitted to the brain. Much of the video was filmed in Senate House, London (the location of the School of Advanced Study and the Senate House Library, University of London). The video included a 24-hour time-lapse sequence of one of the laboratories for sensory research in the Institute of Philosophy, acting as a camera obscura, with an image of the external scene projected on the walls of the laboratory.
Type Of Art	Film/Video/Animation
Year Produced	2016
Impact	Lucida has been exhibited at Art Basel Hong Kong; Tintype Gallery, London; Science Gallery, Dublin; Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth; Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art (CFCCA), Manchester; Asia House, London. The creation of Lucida was supported by the Wellcome Trust and Arts Council England.
URL	http://www.lucidafilm.com


Title	Lucida - movie and multimedia exhibition with Suki Chan
Description	This major art project by Suki Chan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suki_Chan http://www.sukichan.co.uk), supported by the Arts Council and the Wellcome Trust, focuses on the function of the eye and brain in the analysis of visual information. The work being produced includes a full-length movie, based on the chain of events, from the formation of the retinal image and the consequences of eye movements and retinal filtering, to the interpretation of neuronal signals in the visual cortex of the brain. I advised Suki Chan throughout this project, providing scientific information about the structure and function of the retina and the way in which neurons filter information and encode features in the visual world. Part of the filming for Lucida included time-lapse filming inside rooms, each converted into a camera obscura, with a lens mounted in the window black-out. One of these sequences was shot in my laboratory.The work will also include an installation exhibit at Tintype Gallery, including real-time recording of the eye movements of visitors, and display on large screens of reconstructions of the visual information passing through their eyes and entering their brains. I advised on the choice of eye movement recording device and the algorithms of transformation to be applied to images to generate the displays.
Type Of Art	Film/Video/Animation
Year Produced	2016
Impact	A draft of the movie Lucida is being shown by invitation at the Art Basel Hong Kong Festival.
URL	https://vimeo.com/user2742618


Title	Lucida installation
Description	This 3-element video installation was created by Suki Chan, based on a research demonstration made by C Blakemore. The installation has three large display screens, linked by high-speed, real-time computer processing, The screens represent the spatio-temporal transformation between the retinal image and the information reaching the visual cortex. A discreetly-placed eye-movement recording device detects the eye movements of anyone who stands in front of the first screen, which displays a static image or some sort, or a moving video. The second screen displays the same image, but inverted (just as the image in the eye is upside-down). Superimposed on the image is a more-or-less accurate display of the optic disc (the blind spot region, where all the nerve fibres of ganglion cells funnel together through a hole in the sclera to form the optic nerve) and the retinal blood vessels that ramify across the surface of the retina. The part of the image that is being fixated by the viewer (i.e. viewed by the fovea of the eye) is displayed at full resolution, but the rest of the image is spatially filtered ('blurred') to mimic the increasing convergence of retinal receptors on to individual ganglion cells moving from fovea into peripheral retina. As the viewer's eyes move, this entire pattern of filtering, together with the blood vessels and optic disc, jumps from feature to feature, exactly copying the movements of the viewer's fixation. The third screen displays the same pattern as on the second screen, but re-centred so that the feature falling in the middle of the viewer's fovea is always at the centre of the screen. Since the eye makes rapid 'saccadic' movements, approximately times per second, the display on the third screen suddenly shifts dramatically at the same frequency. This screen the represents the spatio-temporal pattern of input from the eye to the visual cortex.
Type Of Art	Artistic/Creative Exhibition
Year Produced	2016
Impact	The Lucida installation has been exhibited at Art Basel Hong Kong; Tintype Gallery, London; Science Gallery, Dublin; Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth; Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art (CFCCA), Manchester; Asia House, London. It was commissioned by CFCCA and Salford University Art Collection and was supported by the Wellcome Trust and Arts Council England.
URL	http://www.sukichan.co.uk/lucidainstallation.htm


Title	Sick of the Fringe (Edinburgh Festival Fringe performance)
Description	Colin Blakemore led a performance called "Sick of the Fringe: celebrating science, health and art" at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This public event was concerned with perception of the world and the body, and it incorporated performances by dancers and mime artists, and an illusionist. The performance was commissioned by the Wellcome Trust.
Type Of Art	Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc)
Year Produced	2015
Impact	All the tickets for this performance were sold, and there was strong audience involvement and follow-up after the performance.
URL	http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2015/WTP059596.htm


Title	Tim's Vermeer (Sony Pictures). Released on DVD.
Description	The award-winning documentary, Tim's Vermeer, for which C Blakemore was a scientific adviser (as well as appearing in the movie) was released on DVD.
Type Of Art	Film/Video/Animation
Year Produced	2015
Impact	Shortlisted for an Oscar nomination. Nominated for a BAFTA.


Title	Visual Cliff artwork
Description	Artwork done in collaboration with glass artist Shelley James using vestibular/visual illusion
Type Of Art	Artefact (including digital)
Year Produced	2015
Impact	Selected for presentation at three art events


Description	In virtually all respects, we have fulfilled the goals outlined in our application, to this stage in the project. In particular: 1) We have established two, new busy laboratories in the heart of the Institute of Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study, and this has enabled the Institute to attract leading cognitive scientists as visitors and resident fellows (Vittorio Gallese, Chris Frith, Patrick Haggard). 2) We have held a large number of seminars and workshops, as outlined in our application, dealing with a series of topics related to the theme of our grant, including individuation of the senses, binding, attention and action, bodily perception and embodiment, flavour etc. 3) Philosophical work has led to a range of publications, aimed in part at the scientific community, on topics such as the perception of sound, space perception, 'top-down' processing and cognitive penetration, illusions and hallucinations, etc. 4) As planned, there has been a strong emphasis on multisensory interaction in human perception and work (both philosophical and empirical) has been done on such topics as the influence of the sound of actions on gate, the interaction of touch and vision in surface shape perception, the relationship between tone perception and seeing musical instruments, as well as a wide range of effects on the perception of flavour from visual, auditory and tactile information.
Exploitation Route	We believe that we are contributing to the growing interest in multisensory perception, and especially to interdisciplinary approaches to research. We believe that we are, as we hoped to be, acting as a beacon for the value of interaction between the arts and sciences
Sectors	Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Education,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Retail
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk


Description	The AHRC project, Rethinking the Senses, includes a wide range of non-academic connections and collaborations. We have successfully sustained our relationships with most of the collaborators named in the application and the high public profile of the project (via the website, social media, public events, broadcasts etc) has attracted many other non-academic collaborators. The main impacts so far (reported separately in our portfolio of outcomes, are as follows: 1. Participation in national and international festivals etc Members of the team have been invited to speak and perform at a number of Festivals of arts and sciences, including the Edinburgh Festival, the Cheltenham Festival, the British Science Festival, the Alchemist's Flavour Festival (Athens), a Conversation at the Art-Science Museum in Singapore, The ALSO Festival, the Cheltenham Science Festival, the Glasgow Science Festival, the Glasgow Science Café, The Smith Centre at the Science Museum, the EMBL/EMBO Science and Society Conference, the Dana Centre, London, the Royal Institution, Food Vision 2014, Wine Vision 2014 and the Royal College of Art. 2. Involvement in artistic and creative works The group has strong collaborative links with a number of individual artists (including Patrick Hughes and David Hockney), film makers, installation artists, designers, chefs (including Heston Blumenthal), dancers etc. Members of the team have collaborators directly in the production of a full-length documentary (Tim's Vermeer, nominated for a BAFTA), Lucida (a film and multi-media installation by Suki Chan), a DVD series on consciousness, an award-0winning film about blindness (Into Darkness), an ambitious experimental "banquet" (Icelandic Dining Experience), the creation of an installation sculptural work (Visual Cliff) etc. 3 Broadcasting and writing for the national and international media As our portfolio shows, we have been very active in public communication, through a range of television and radio contributions and a large number of articles about our work for the national and international media. Social media The website for the project is active and well-used and several members of the team are active in other social media outlets (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit etc)
First Year Of Impact	2013
Sector	Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Healthcare,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections
Impact Types	Cultural,Societal,Economic,Policy & public services


Description	AHRC Council Member
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	Council members are appointed by the Minister for Universities and Science and are responsible for the overall strategic direction of the AHRC including its key objectives and targets, and key decisions about the research direction of the AHRC.
URL	http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/News/Pages/New-appointments-to-Arts-and-Humanities-Research-Co...


Description	Advice on human well-being and life expectancy
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	CB is a member of the Longevity Science Panel, an advisory group established by Legal & General (initially chaired by Sir Derek Wanless, now chaired by Dame Karen Dunnell). It produces reports on aspects of human health, social status, behaviour etc, which impinge on life expectancy and the quality of life. Its reports have been widely influential in the actuarial business, as well as amongst experts in public health.
URL	http://www.longevitypanel.co.uk/


Description	Appointed Chair of the Danish Neuroscience Initiative of the Lundbeck Foundation
Geographic Reach	Europe
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee


Description	Chair of the General Advisory Committee on Science, Food Standards Agency
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	The General Advisory Committee on Science challenges the Food Standards Agency in its entire use of science and evidence. It has produced significant change in the way in which the Agency gathers and uses evidence, which have had an impact on its ability to regulate the safety of food.


Description	Conversations in Mind/Brain/Behaviour, Harvard
Geographic Reach	North America
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	I was a speaker at Conversations in Mind/Brain/Behaviour, interfaculty event, Harvard University, debating with Professor Robert Stickgold (Harvard). the aim was to show how interdisciplinary research in Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience can be done.
URL	http://mbb.harvard.edu/event/conversations-mindbrainbehavior


Description	DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) 2016
Geographic Reach	Europe
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	Referee for DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) 2016


Description	European Society for Analytic Philosophy
Geographic Reach	Asia
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	Member of the Steering Committee of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy. In order to further contacts and collaboration amongst European analytic philosophers, the Society intends: To organize European Congresses of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP) on regular basis. Such congresses will allow European analytic philosophers, whatever their areas of interest (philosophy of language, ethics, epistemology, metaphyics, philosophy of mind, etc.), to meet and come to know each other. to issue a newsletter and other publications of general interest (a directory of the European analytic philosophers and a booklet containing information about istitutional aspects of philosophy in different European countries are planned). to facilitate the organization of European conferences and workshops on specific subjects within analytic philosophy.
URL	http://www.esap.info


Description	European Society of Analytic Philosophy
Geographic Reach	Europe
Policy Influence Type	Membership of a guideline committee
Impact	We ran the Society effectively and organised its conferences.
URL	http://analyticphilosophy.eu/


Description	External consultant for a Professorial Position (W3), Ludwig-Maximillians University
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee


Description	Kennedy Memorial Trust Trustee
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	I am a Trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust. The Kennedy Memorial Trust was established in 1964 to administer money raised in the UK as a tribute to the late President John Kennedy. Part of the fund was used to create and maintain the Kennedy Memorial site at Runnymede, Surrey. The remaining money is used to provide Kennedy Scholarships, which enable British post-graduate students to study at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Trustees are responsible for the selection process for those scholarships and for managing the maintenance of the Kennedy Memorial in Runnymede. See also: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/kennedy-memorial-trust-appointments--2
URL	http://www.kennedytrust.org.uk


Description	Member of the Mind Association Executive Committee
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	The Mind Association supports and promotes research excellence in philosophy. It is responsible for the management and financial support of the quarterly journal, Mind. For a statement of the journal's review practices see MIND Review Practices The Association also supports philosophical research in two main other ways: by offering conference grants to help fund high quality, open conferences and workshops in any area of philosophy; and by funding research fellowships. From 2010 the fellowships offered comprise: up to three six-month research fellowships; and a 12-month fellowship, the Mind Senior Research Fellowship. In the academic year following the tenure of their fellowship, the Mind Senior Fellow gives a public lecture hosted by their home institution.
URL	http://www.mindassociation.org


Description	Member, Government Chief Scientist's Committee of chairs of Advisory Committees
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	This Committee of the chairs of many of the Scientific Advisory Committees to government departments discusses with the Government Chief Scientist emerging problems facing the use of science and evidence in all areas of government.


Description	Philosophy Department, University of Auckland
Geographic Reach	Australia
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	Invited external overseas reviewer of the Philosophy Department, University of Auckland, September 2014. Various recommendations about the Department and the University were made.


Description	Report on the basis of ageing and the likely pattern of human life expectancy
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	The review (What is ageing? Can we delay it? (September 2014), pp 66), based on in-depth interviews with experts in bio-gerontology and the biology and ageing, revealed near-consensus on several topics, particularly on the likelihood that average life expectancy will continue to increase gradually, but not indefinitely, and that there is unlikely to be a dramatic increase in longevity as a result of pharmaceutical intervention. The report suggests that major contributions to the increase in 'health expectancy' are more likely to come from behavioural change (e.g. reduction in smoking, more exercise) and public health interventions (screening programmes etc).
URL	http://www.longevitypanel.co.uk/_files/What-is-ageing-can-we-delay-it.pdf


Description	Report on the importance of access to public data for policy on the ageing population
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	http://www.longevitypanel.co.uk/_files/LSP_DATA2015_FINAL.pdf


Description	Reviewer for the Volkswagen Foundation
Geographic Reach	Asia
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	Invited reviewer for the Volkswagen Foundation's funding initiative "European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities", Hannover, Germany, October 2014. Read grant proposals and interview grant applicants and made recommendations to the board of trustees about who they should and should not fund.
URL	http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/funding.html


Description	Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Geographic Reach	North America
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	Reviewer for the 2016 Society for Philosophy and Psychology Conference
URL	http://www.socphilpsych.org/


Description	AHRC Development Grant
Amount	£80,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2015
End	12/2015


Description	BIAL project
Amount	€ 50,000 (EUR)
Organisation	BIAL Foundation
Sector	Public
Country	Portugal
Start	03/2017
End	03/2019


Description	British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award 2016/17
Amount	£15,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	EN150136
Organisation	The British Academy
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2016
End	03/2017


Description	Durham Emergence Project: Fellowship Programme
Amount	£50,000 (GBP)
Organisation	The John Templeton Foundation
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United States
Start	10/2014
End	09/2015


Description	HEFCE Catalyst grant
Amount	£249,920 (GBP)
Funding ID	E09
Organisation	Higher Education Funding Council for England
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	07/2015
End	12/2017


Description	Leverhulme Visiting Professorship
Amount	£130,478 (GBP)
Funding ID	VP1-2016-060
Organisation	The Leverhulme Trust
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2017
End	01/2019


Description	New Directions (Templeton Foundation)
Amount	£166,448 (GBP)
Organisation	The John Templeton Foundation
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United States
Start	10/2015
End	12/2017


Description	Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Network Grant
Amount	£19,986 (GBP)
Organisation	Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE)
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2015
End	03/2017


Description	Silk Charitable Trust Research grant
Amount	£310,000 (GBP)
Organisation	The Silk Trust
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	10/2012
End	09/2017


Description	University of Cambridge's New Directions in the Study of the Mind Project via the John Templeton Foundation
Amount	£6,670 (GBP)
Organisation	University of Cambridge
Department	New Directions in the Study of the Mind Project
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	04/2017
End	06/2017


Description	University of Cambridge's New Directions in the Study of the Mind Project via the John Templeton Foundation
Amount	£9,824 (GBP)
Organisation	University of Cambridge
Department	New Directions in the Study of the Mind Project
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	06/2017
End	08/2017


Description	University of Cambridge's New Directions in the Study of the Mind Project via the John Templeton Foundation
Amount	£58,610 (GBP)
Organisation	The John Templeton Foundation
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United States
Start	07/2016
End	07/2017


Description	University of Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Fund
Amount	£15,000 (GBP)
Organisation	University of Glasgow
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2017
End	03/2017


Title	SensesWiki
Description	SensesWiki is an interactive website designed to facilitate collaborative research across multiple research institutions, locations and disciplines. Based upon the freely available and open source MediaWiki platform, and hosted at the University of Glasgow, the website serves as a repository for ongoing and planned research activities, research outputs, and for facilitating interaction between team members. In time, we hope to roll out the use of the site to our collaborators and partner organisations, who will be able to view and comment on aspects of our research, though the core site is .
Type Of Material	Data handling & control
Provided To Others?	No
Impact	The database is intended to facilitate research activities rather than as an output in its own right. However, if successful, the same technology could equally be applied to other research projects, or its life extended for use beyond the current project.
URL	http://wiki.thesenses.ac.uk/


Description	AHRC and Wellcome Trust collaboration on Wellbieng, Culture and Society meetings
Organisation	Wellcome Trust
Department	Wellcome Trust Bloomsbury Centre
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	The Wellcome Trust and the Science in Culture Theme of the AHRC identified two key issues for exploratory workshops: The Mental Health of Refugees and Wellbeing and The Build Environment . Tow international workshops have been convened to bring together experts, clinicians, policy makers and academics to shape a research agenda and possible joint funding call.
Collaborator Contribution	Provided access to their networks, funded researchers, provided funding and administrative support .
Impact	Impacts and outcomes still to appear. First workshop in March, second in May. Disciplines involved: art, architecture, engineering, biology, design, history, medicine, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, public health,
Start Year	2016


Description	Bergen Project Development Consortium on Philosophy, Neuroscience and Ethics
Organisation	University of Bergen
Country	Norway
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	International consultant and collaborator on the Research Council of Norway funded Bergen Project Development Consortium on Philosophy, Neuroscience and Ethics
Collaborator Contribution	Organised and ran the project and associated activities.
Impact	the workshops influenced my written research.
Start Year	2012


Description	Centre for the Study of the Senses (CenSes)
Organisation	University of London
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	I am co-director of the Centre for the Study of the Senses
Collaborator Contribution	Co-directors, award holders and researchers
Impact	This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration involving philosophy, psychology and neuroscience. We have influenced each other's research, held numerous joint seminars, workshops and conferences and public engagement activities.
Start Year	2009


Description	Collaboration with David Hockney, artist, in a study of the inadequacies of conventional perspective in representational graphic art
Organisation	St. David's Medical Foundation
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	I am working with David Hockney on a comparison between his methods of digital collage ("photographic drawings") and the strategy of the visual system in sampling the visual field in a rapid sequence of ocular fixations.
Collaborator Contribution	David Hockney brings his vast experience of techniques of drawing, painting and photography, together with his knowledge of art history and his interest in perspective.
Impact	An invited talk (by Colin Blakemore) at the Visual Science of Art Conference, Liverpool, 22-23 August 2015 (published as Blakemore, C. & Hockney, D. (2015) Through the Looking Glass. Breaking the rules of perspective.)
Start Year	2015


Description	Collaboration with London Gastronomy Seminar
Organisation	London Gastronomy Seminars
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Collaboration with London Gastronomy Seminars on a series of public talks with food and drinks experts on chocolate, cheese, whisky, spices, tea, including 'Reflections on Three Decades of Science in the Kitchen': An Evening with Harold McGee' 01/03/14 and an interview with Harold McGee on his book on smell, Nose Dive, with over 500 attenders on Zoom on 09/12/20.
Collaborator Contribution	Provision of experts and speakers. Hosting speakers and covering the cost of their transport and accommodation.
Impact	This lecture was the subject of a BBC Radio 4 Food Programme.
Start Year	2016


Description	Collaboration with Tate Galleries (Tate Exchange)
Organisation	Tate
Department	Tate Modern, London
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	Series of demonstrations and experiments accessible to a large audience - part of a citizen science project
Collaborator Contribution	Providing space, experienced staff and logistical support for 4 full days
Impact	One paper already published ; one interdisciplinary meeting
Start Year	2016


Description	Collaboration with graphic artist Patrick Hughes
Organisation	Reverspective Ltd.
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	We are working with Patrick Hughes, an artist who exploits what he calls "reverspective" to create illusory movement in static paintings. This technique involves pitting monocular depth cues (e.g. linear perspective) against binocular (stereo) cues provided by the true shape of the surface on the painting. The phenomenon raises interesting questions about the way in which the visual system normally integrates different cues to 3-D space. We are doing neuroimaging and perceptual experiments, with the aid of Patrick Hughes, who constructs physical stimuli for use in the experiments.
Collaborator Contribution	Patrick and his studio are not only closely involved in discussing the design of the experiments: they actually construct the stimuli used in this research, including small-scale versions of reverspective constructions that can be presented to volunteers in an MRI scanner.
Impact	No full publications yet. But we have demonstrated this work at a number of public engagement events, in London and Glasgow.
Start Year	2013


Description	Conservatiion, arts and science with the Getty Foundation
Organisation	The Getty Foundation
Country	United States
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	The Getty Conservation Institute organized a visit for the Leadership Fellow to present a talk on the potential collaborations with the Science in Culture Theme and to attend meetings and a conference. The Leadership Fellow was also included in a workshop in California and a conference in London jointly organized by Getty and Tate on conservation of new media art. The Getty Museum have asked the Leadership Fellow to help plan experiments for their College Night (2300 visitors) and for a satellite event for their Plato in LA exhibition
Collaborator Contribution	Funding of pre-conference workshop in California. Funding and arranging of trip and talks at Getty Conservation Institute and Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.
Impact	There are plans for collaborative research projects involving art historians, artists, philosophers and neuroscientists, and contributions to the Getty Museum's College Night and Plato in LA exhibition events.
Start Year	2016


Description	Consultant for Trapholt Gallery exhibition EAT ME and related projects on food and eating
Organisation	Trapholt Museum of Modern Art
Country	Denmark
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	Severed as consultant for EAT ME exhibition and spoke at opening of the exhibition. Wrote an essay for the catalogue
Collaborator Contribution	Invited me to present ideas about food and the senses and showcase my research in the exhibition and the catalogue.
Impact	Essay for the catalogue of the exhibition EAT ME. Requests from other galleries to contribute to exhibition design.
Start Year	2017


Description	EXRE: Centre for Research on Mind and Normativity
Organisation	University of Fribourg
Country	Switzerland
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Held joint workshops and seminars together
Collaborator Contribution	Held joint workshops and seminars together
Impact	We have produced conference papers and influenced each others' written research
Start Year	2008


Description	Experimenting, Experiencing, Reflecting: Art and Science at Work in the Public Realm
Organisation	Aarhus University
Department	Interacting Minds Centre
Country	Denmark
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Ran a multisensory dinner for a workshop at Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin. Conducted Experiential Tasting at Tate Modern for the EER project Negotiated entry for testing to Tate Modern Organized and ran Workshop for Curators and Conservators: Tate, Getty, Trapholt
Collaborator Contribution	Studio Olafur Eliasson provided equipment and people to run experiments/experiences for Tate Exchange Event. Contributed to Workshop for Curators and Conservators: Tate, Getty, Trapholt
Impact	Multidisciplinary collaboration: arts, anthropology, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology Workshop at Studio Oalfur Eliasson Tate Exchange weekend with Film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TRT5VVk2lA A set of taste, smell and flavour experiments conducted at the Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin. Here documented: https://eer.info/activities/taste-and-sense-experiments
Start Year	2019


Description	Experimenting, Experiencing, Reflecting: Art and Science at Work in the Public Realm
Organisation	Studio Olafur Eliasson
Country	Germany
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Ran a multisensory dinner for a workshop at Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin. Conducted Experiential Tasting at Tate Modern for the EER project Negotiated entry for testing to Tate Modern Organized and ran Workshop for Curators and Conservators: Tate, Getty, Trapholt
Collaborator Contribution	Studio Olafur Eliasson provided equipment and people to run experiments/experiences for Tate Exchange Event. Contributed to Workshop for Curators and Conservators: Tate, Getty, Trapholt
Impact	Multidisciplinary collaboration: arts, anthropology, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology Workshop at Studio Oalfur Eliasson Tate Exchange weekend with Film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TRT5VVk2lA A set of taste, smell and flavour experiments conducted at the Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin. Here documented: https://eer.info/activities/taste-and-sense-experiments
Start Year	2019


Description	Heston Blumenthal, Chef, UK
Organisation	The Fat Duck Restaurant
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Research on the influence of other sensory input on the perception of flavour
Collaborator Contribution	World-leading chef. Designed dishes involving optimal combinations of food, sound and other aspects of sensory input (e.g. Sound of the Sea, signature dish at The Fat Duck)
Impact	Sound of the Sea, signature dish at The Fat Duck
Start Year	2011


Description	Improving sensory substitution devices
Organisation	National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS)
Department	Department of Cognitive Studies
Country	France
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Design and co-supervision of a series of five experiments to test new ways to improve sensory substitution devices for blind individuals
Collaborator Contribution	Providing with experimental facilities ; programming and testing ; recruitment of blind participants ; analysis of the data ; funding of research dissemination
Impact	Two joint papers Grant application Five talks at international conferences
Start Year	2012


Description	Institute of Art & Ideas
Organisation	Institue of Art and Ideas
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	Part of the IAI Fellows Scheme, supporting the design and deliverance of public engagement debates.
Collaborator Contribution	Sharing of expertise and facilities for the organization of philosophy and science public engagement events.
Impact	Not yet.
Start Year	2016


Description	International Leverhulme Network: Evaluating Methods of Aesthetic Enquiry across Disciplines
Organisation	Concordia University
Country	Canada
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	I'm an associate researcher who will attend two workshops.
Collaborator Contribution	The network is run by Professor Dee Reynolds at the University of Manchester. The network involves many researchers from around the world who will meet at various workshops.
Impact	Disciplines involved: Philosophy, Psychology, French, Anthropology, Art History, Neuroscience
Start Year	2015


Description	International Leverhulme Network: Evaluating Methods of Aesthetic Enquiry across Disciplines
Organisation	Sorbonne University
Country	France
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	I'm an associate researcher who will attend two workshops.
Collaborator Contribution	The network is run by Professor Dee Reynolds at the University of Manchester. The network involves many researchers from around the world who will meet at various workshops.
Impact	Disciplines involved: Philosophy, Psychology, French, Anthropology, Art History, Neuroscience
Start Year	2015


Description	International Leverhulme Network: Evaluating Methods of Aesthetic Enquiry across Disciplines
Organisation	University of Copenhagen
Country	Denmark
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	I'm an associate researcher who will attend two workshops.
Collaborator Contribution	The network is run by Professor Dee Reynolds at the University of Manchester. The network involves many researchers from around the world who will meet at various workshops.
Impact	Disciplines involved: Philosophy, Psychology, French, Anthropology, Art History, Neuroscience
Start Year	2015


Description	International Leverhulme Network: Evaluating Methods of Aesthetic Enquiry across Disciplines
Organisation	University of Glasgow
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	I'm an associate researcher who will attend two workshops.
Collaborator Contribution	The network is run by Professor Dee Reynolds at the University of Manchester. The network involves many researchers from around the world who will meet at various workshops.
Impact	Disciplines involved: Philosophy, Psychology, French, Anthropology, Art History, Neuroscience
Start Year	2015


Description	International Leverhulme Network: Evaluating Methods of Aesthetic Enquiry across Disciplines
Organisation	University of Manchester
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	I'm an associate researcher who will attend two workshops.
Collaborator Contribution	The network is run by Professor Dee Reynolds at the University of Manchester. The network involves many researchers from around the world who will meet at various workshops.
Impact	Disciplines involved: Philosophy, Psychology, French, Anthropology, Art History, Neuroscience
Start Year	2015


Description	International Leverhulme Network: Evaluating Methods of Aesthetic Enquiry across Disciplines
Organisation	University of Oxford
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	I'm an associate researcher who will attend two workshops.
Collaborator Contribution	The network is run by Professor Dee Reynolds at the University of Manchester. The network involves many researchers from around the world who will meet at various workshops.
Impact	Disciplines involved: Philosophy, Psychology, French, Anthropology, Art History, Neuroscience
Start Year	2015


Description	International Leverhulme Network: Evaluating Methods of Aesthetic Enquiry across Disciplines
Organisation	University of Vienna
Country	Austria
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	I'm an associate researcher who will attend two workshops.
Collaborator Contribution	The network is run by Professor Dee Reynolds at the University of Manchester. The network involves many researchers from around the world who will meet at various workshops.
Impact	Disciplines involved: Philosophy, Psychology, French, Anthropology, Art History, Neuroscience
Start Year	2015


Description	Mid-level crossmodal correspondence
Organisation	Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
Department	Xperiment
Country	Canada
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	We proposed the research idea and design the experiment with one of our partner, Dr. Pi-Chun Huang.
Collaborator Contribution	Dr. Pi-Chun Huang (National Cheng Kung University) contributes essential knowledge and technical support to create experiment stimuli. She will also collect data in Taiwan for crosscultural comparison. Dr. Andy Woods (Xperiment) provides programming and technical support of online experiment.
Impact	No outcome yet.
Start Year	2014


Description	Mid-level crossmodal correspondence
Organisation	National Cheng Kung University
Country	Taiwan, Province of China
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	We proposed the research idea and design the experiment with one of our partner, Dr. Pi-Chun Huang.
Collaborator Contribution	Dr. Pi-Chun Huang (National Cheng Kung University) contributes essential knowledge and technical support to create experiment stimuli. She will also collect data in Taiwan for crosscultural comparison. Dr. Andy Woods (Xperiment) provides programming and technical support of online experiment.
Impact	No outcome yet.
Start Year	2014


Description	Multisensory experience and training for The Fat Duck restaurant
Organisation	The Fat Duck Restaurant
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Training on sensory science and multisensory experience for the front of house team at The Fat Duck restaurant. Co-creation of experiments and materials for testing at festivals and public events. Contributions to design of menu and dining experience of guests.
Collaborator Contribution	Co-creation of experiments and materials for festivals, radio programmes, and other public events. Contribution to The Wonders and Challenges of Human Space Flight event at the Science Museum in 2017
Impact	Multisensory food and wine tasting event at Cheltenham Science Festival 2016 with Heston Blumenthal and team from The Fat Duck together with Leadership fellow and team from AHRC project Rethinking the Senses at the Centre for the Study of the Senses, University of London. Preparation and presentation of stimuli for Tasting Shapes on a Plate at the 2014 Being Human Festival event at the Science Museum in London resulting in a publication, 'Bouba and Kiki on a plate' Fairhurst, Pritchard, Ospina, Deroy, Flavour 2015. Team at Experimental Kitchen created sauces to match with music for Leadership Fellow to present on BBC Radio 4's The Kitchen Cabinet, as well as supplying foods prepared for Tim Peake's space mission to the ISS for another episode of the programme. Preparation and contribution to AHRC and UKSA event at the Science Museum on The Wonders and Challenges of Human Space Flight in 2017.
Start Year	2012


Description	Music, Mind and Culture
Organisation	University of York
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Organisation of a series of workshops linking philosophy of mind and perception, cognitive neuroscience and music psychology, and musicologists
Collaborator Contribution	Organisation of 1/2 of the workshops
Impact	Multidisciplinary
Start Year	2013


Description	Nature of Taste Project
Organisation	New York University
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Attended and presented work at workshops in Abu Dhabi and one in Paris.
Collaborator Contribution	Attended and presented work at workshops in Abu Dhabi and one in Paris.
Impact	Input into written research.
Start Year	2009


Description	Network for Sensory Reserach
Organisation	Harvard University
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	We attended and presented research at workshops and conferences. We organised workshops and conferences. We had graduate exchanges and mentored graduate students.
Collaborator Contribution	They attended and presented research at workshops and conferences. They organised workshops and conferences. They had graduate exchanges and mentored graduate students.
Impact	We influenced each other's research, and attended and presented research at workshops and conferences. We organised workshops and conferences. We had graduate exchanges and mentored graduate students.
Start Year	2011


Description	Network for Sensory Reserach
Organisation	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	We attended and presented research at workshops and conferences. We organised workshops and conferences. We had graduate exchanges and mentored graduate students.
Collaborator Contribution	They attended and presented research at workshops and conferences. They organised workshops and conferences. They had graduate exchanges and mentored graduate students.
Impact	We influenced each other's research, and attended and presented research at workshops and conferences. We organised workshops and conferences. We had graduate exchanges and mentored graduate students.
Start Year	2011


Description	Network for Sensory Reserach
Organisation	University of London
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	We attended and presented research at workshops and conferences. We organised workshops and conferences. We had graduate exchanges and mentored graduate students.
Collaborator Contribution	They attended and presented research at workshops and conferences. They organised workshops and conferences. They had graduate exchanges and mentored graduate students.
Impact	We influenced each other's research, and attended and presented research at workshops and conferences. We organised workshops and conferences. We had graduate exchanges and mentored graduate students.
Start Year	2011


Description	Network for Sensory Reserach
Organisation	University of Toronto
Country	Canada
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	We attended and presented research at workshops and conferences. We organised workshops and conferences. We had graduate exchanges and mentored graduate students.
Collaborator Contribution	They attended and presented research at workshops and conferences. They organised workshops and conferences. They had graduate exchanges and mentored graduate students.
Impact	We influenced each other's research, and attended and presented research at workshops and conferences. We organised workshops and conferences. We had graduate exchanges and mentored graduate students.
Start Year	2011


Description	Partnership for the creation of Lucida - multimedia project by Suki Chan
Organisation	Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA)
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	This major art project by Suki Chan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suki_Chan http://www.sukichan.co.uk), supported by the Arts Council and the Wellcome Trust, focuses on the function of the eye and brain in the analysis of visual information. The work being produced includes a full-length movie, based on the chain of events, from the formation of the retinal image and the consequences of eye movements and retinal filtering, to the interpretation of neuronal signals in the visual cortex of the brain. I advised Suki Chan throughout this project, providing scientific information about the structure and function of the retina and the way in which neurons filter information and encode features in the visual world. Part of the filming for Lucida included time-lapse filming inside rooms, each converted into a camera obscura, with a lens mounted in the window black-out. One of these sequences was shot in my laboratory.The work will also include an installation exhibit at Tintype Gallery, including real-time recording of the eye movements of visitors, and display on large screens of reconstructions of the visual information passing through their eyes and entering their brains. I advised on the choice of eye movement recording device and the algorithms of transformation to be applied to images to generate the displays.
Collaborator Contribution	The discussions with Suki Chan, originally intended to be didactic and unidirectional, became a rich source of thoughts about the nature of the transformation from retinal image to visual experience. some of which have actually generated questions for experimental research. In particular, our discussion about the fact that the shadows on the retinal blood vessels, falling on the photoreceptors, are not normally visible, led to new questions about this phenomenon, challenging conventional explanations.
Impact	Invited preview of the current draft of Lucida (the movie) at the Art Basel Hong Kong festival (http://www.tintypegallery.com/suki-chan-in-art-basel-hong-kong/)
Start Year	2015


Description	Partnership for the creation of Lucida - multimedia project by Suki Chan
Organisation	Salford Museum and Art Gallery
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	This major art project by Suki Chan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suki_Chan http://www.sukichan.co.uk), supported by the Arts Council and the Wellcome Trust, focuses on the function of the eye and brain in the analysis of visual information. The work being produced includes a full-length movie, based on the chain of events, from the formation of the retinal image and the consequences of eye movements and retinal filtering, to the interpretation of neuronal signals in the visual cortex of the brain. I advised Suki Chan throughout this project, providing scientific information about the structure and function of the retina and the way in which neurons filter information and encode features in the visual world. Part of the filming for Lucida included time-lapse filming inside rooms, each converted into a camera obscura, with a lens mounted in the window black-out. One of these sequences was shot in my laboratory.The work will also include an installation exhibit at Tintype Gallery, including real-time recording of the eye movements of visitors, and display on large screens of reconstructions of the visual information passing through their eyes and entering their brains. I advised on the choice of eye movement recording device and the algorithms of transformation to be applied to images to generate the displays.
Collaborator Contribution	The discussions with Suki Chan, originally intended to be didactic and unidirectional, became a rich source of thoughts about the nature of the transformation from retinal image to visual experience. some of which have actually generated questions for experimental research. In particular, our discussion about the fact that the shadows on the retinal blood vessels, falling on the photoreceptors, are not normally visible, led to new questions about this phenomenon, challenging conventional explanations.
Impact	Invited preview of the current draft of Lucida (the movie) at the Art Basel Hong Kong festival (http://www.tintypegallery.com/suki-chan-in-art-basel-hong-kong/)
Start Year	2015


Description	Partnership for the creation of Lucida - multimedia project by Suki Chan
Organisation	Tintype Gallery
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	This major art project by Suki Chan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suki_Chan http://www.sukichan.co.uk), supported by the Arts Council and the Wellcome Trust, focuses on the function of the eye and brain in the analysis of visual information. The work being produced includes a full-length movie, based on the chain of events, from the formation of the retinal image and the consequences of eye movements and retinal filtering, to the interpretation of neuronal signals in the visual cortex of the brain. I advised Suki Chan throughout this project, providing scientific information about the structure and function of the retina and the way in which neurons filter information and encode features in the visual world. Part of the filming for Lucida included time-lapse filming inside rooms, each converted into a camera obscura, with a lens mounted in the window black-out. One of these sequences was shot in my laboratory.The work will also include an installation exhibit at Tintype Gallery, including real-time recording of the eye movements of visitors, and display on large screens of reconstructions of the visual information passing through their eyes and entering their brains. I advised on the choice of eye movement recording device and the algorithms of transformation to be applied to images to generate the displays.
Collaborator Contribution	The discussions with Suki Chan, originally intended to be didactic and unidirectional, became a rich source of thoughts about the nature of the transformation from retinal image to visual experience. some of which have actually generated questions for experimental research. In particular, our discussion about the fact that the shadows on the retinal blood vessels, falling on the photoreceptors, are not normally visible, led to new questions about this phenomenon, challenging conventional explanations.
Impact	Invited preview of the current draft of Lucida (the movie) at the Art Basel Hong Kong festival (http://www.tintypegallery.com/suki-chan-in-art-basel-hong-kong/)
Start Year	2015


Description	Partnership with Cheltenham Science Festival
Organisation	Cheltenham Festivals
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Planning of four sessions for The Times Cheltenham Science Festival 2017, including several award holders from the Science in Culture Theme
Collaborator Contribution	Planning, advertising, running four sessions in collaboration with AHRC at the Times Cheltenham Science Festival 2017
Impact	Festival is still to take place in June 2017. Disciplines involved include Archeology, Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychology.
Start Year	2016


Description	Sensory Substitution
Organisation	University of Copenhagen
Department	Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Country	Denmark
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Two research papers Signature of a bilateral agreement Examination of a PhD. student
Collaborator Contribution	Research stays paid by Copenhaguen for partners' visits to London Access to fMRI for experiments
Impact	On-going experiment ; grant application Multi-disciplinary: Neuroscience, psychology, philosophy
Start Year	2014


Description	Sounding body
Organisation	University College London
Department	Faculty of Engineering Sciences
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Design and writing of three joint experiments
Collaborator Contribution	Experimental costs were fully paid through UCL's partners' grant, including an experiment conducted in Japan.
Impact	Three joint papers (submitted) One joint workshop
Start Year	2013


Description	Tate Exchange
Organisation	Tate
Department	Tate Modern, London
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	Together with a team of researchers from the Centre for the Study of the Senses, we ran fourteen taste experiments at Tate Modern over four days, called TASTE AT TATE drawing over 1900 participants from the public. This was part of our partnership with Tate Exchange at Tate Modern to bring a new crowd of visitors to the gallery. The experiments collected data and the results are being prepared for publication. There was press attention for this series of events: BBC Radio 4 All in the Mind recorded there and Barry Smith's experiment, Tasting Shapes, was featured in Victoria Moore's wine column in the Telegraph.A second series of events and experiments will take place in March 2018 called Self-Impressions featuring twenty experiments by artists, engineers, philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, looking at how we generate sensory experiences and receive feedback from our environment and from others. This is part of Tate Exchange's theme of Production. A third event on Movement took place over a weekend, occupying the 5th floor of the Blavatnik Building at Tate to run a series of experiments and experiences in collaboration with LMU Munich, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL, and Studio Olafur Eliasson.
Collaborator Contribution	Our partners at Tate Exchange provided a large floor space on the firth floor of the Blavatnik Building as well as administrative, organizational and press support to help run these experiments over several days. They provided advertising and staff help to prepare and run these experiments. They produced evaluation of the visitor experience.
Impact	This was a multidisicplinary collaboration featuring artists, engineers, philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists. Publications have been produced and submitted and the Getty Institute has asked the team to produce similar experiences and experiments for them in LA. A number of films were made of these events.
Start Year	2016


Description	The Complexity of Perception: A Multidimensional Approach
Organisation	University of Barcelona
Department	Faculty of Philosophy
Country	Spain
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Partnership has just begun.
Collaborator Contribution	Partnership has just begun.
Impact	Partnership has just begun.
Start Year	2015


Description	Thought and Sense: On the Interface between Perception and Cognition
Organisation	University of Warwick
Department	Department of Philosophy
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Discussion of our research, attendance at a conference by one of my postdocs, future joint conferences are planned.
Collaborator Contribution	Discussion of our research, attendance at a conference by one of my postdocs, future joint conferences are planned.
Impact	Discussion of our research, attendance at a conference by one of my postdocs, future joint conferences are planned.
Start Year	2015


Description	Unimodal and multimodal representations in the human brain
Organisation	University College London
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Design and analysis of fMRI data, to detect regions of the human cortex systematically activated by single sensory modalities, and those with multimodal activation.
Collaborator Contribution	Data from MRI scans. Access to scanning facilities and analytical techniques.
Impact	There are two publications close to submission for publication.
Start Year	2013


Description	Visiting Professor University of Kentucky
Organisation	University of Kentucky
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	I visited to work with Dr Clare Batty in Philosophy. We discussed a new paper that we may write together. I taught some graduate classes and supervised graduate students.
Collaborator Contribution	As above.
Impact	On-going research for a follow-up paper to our: Macpherson, F. and Batty, C. (2016) 'Redefining Illusion and Hallucination in the Light of New Cases', Philosophical Issues, 26: 263 - 296.
Start Year	2017


Description	Visiting Professor, University of Trnava, Slovakia
Organisation	University of Tuzla
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	I was a Visiting Professor for one week and I taught eighteen hours of classes on my research to staff, postgraduate and undergraduate students in philosophy and psychology.
Collaborator Contribution	They discussed my work with me.
Impact	I had useful discussions of my research with staff and students.
Start Year	2015


Description	Visual depth and optic flow
Organisation	Shelley James
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Together with the artist Shelley James we are exploring the intersection between multilayered depth perception and kinesthetic movement and resulting optic flow.
Collaborator Contribution	Creation of bespoke installations: multilayered depth illusions
Impact	Ongoing study design
Start Year	2014


Title	Modulation of the Immune Response and Outcomes in ALS (EU Horizon 2020 MIROCALS Trial)
Description	In 2015, Colin Blakemore was invited to join the Independent Advisory Board of the MIROCALS project, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 scheme. It is an international, multi-centre trial of Interleukin-2 in the treatment of Motor Neuron Disease (ALS). The aim is to perform a phase-II, placebo-controlled, double blind, randomized clinical trial using low-dose IL-2 to halt ALS disease progression. It will also test the proof of concept that biomarkers can accelerate future intervention studies and provide unique insights on ALS disease pathogenesis, identifying novel target for intervention. The project is coordinated by the hospital of Nimes (France) and involves 11 partners across Europe, a patient's organisation, two CROs for the trial monitoring and biobanking, and a tech transfer company for the EU management. The participating clinical centres are being identified and included in MIROCALS during the course of the project. MIROCALS is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement n° 633413 and for a duration of 4 years starting 1 September 2015.
Type	Therapeutic Intervention - Drug
Current Stage Of Development	Early clinical assessment
Year Development Stage Completed	2015
Development Status	Under active development/distribution
Impact	The project has been in progress for only six months but has already raised considerable interest among leading experts in MND in Europe. It is forging links with the biotech/pharma community, and is helping to link patient groups to clinical researchers.
URL	http://www.encals.eu/news/mirocals-modifying-the-immune-response-and-outcoms-in-als/


Description	Curated dinner at restaurant Xavier260. 15th May, Porto Allegre, Brazil.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Smith, B., & Spence, C. (2015). Curated dinner at restaurant Xavier260. 15th May, Porto Allegre, Brazil.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	"Explorathon '15" the European Researcher's night
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	We ran two hands-on research stations, one on the ReThinking the Senses Project and on the Value of Suffering Project at the Glasgow Science Centre from 6 - 11pm. We had over 300 visitors to the stations. We presented a variety of perceptual and pain illusions and other effects including: a thermal grill that produces pain illusions, Patrick Hughes Reverspectives, demonstration of olfactory component in taste, demonstration of nice and nasty flavours, various motion illusions including the motion after-effect, a mirascope, a hyperscope, 2-D and 3-D impossible figures, the McGurk effect.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/outreach/explorathon-2015/


Description	'Being a Woman in Philosophy' talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	Talk for undergraduate and postgraduate students from underrepresented groups about challenges to be faced if continuing in academia.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	15th EMBL\|EMBO Science and Society Conference: Foods are us! On eating & becoming 6-7th November.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Talk led to extensive questions and further discussion. It also led to press interest - see below Talk led to 2 press interviews one for Swiss national Radio One for German newspaper
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.embl.de/training/events/2014/SNS14-01/


Description	3 talks / events at Edinburgh Science Festival
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2014). Mad Hatter's tea party. Edinburgh Science Festival. 5th April. Spence, C. (2014). Sensation: Multisensory dining experience. Edinburgh Science Festival. 5th April. Spence, C. (2014). Brainwaves: Sensory dining. Edinburgh Science Festival. 7th April. Several press stories
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on Redditt
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	C Blakemore was the invited guest for an AMA debate on Reddit, on the question of research ethics, and on the necessity for openness and transparency in biomedical research. The debate was attended by tens of thousands of observers and elicited hundreds of questions and hundreds of replies and comments from other participants.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/412xty/science_ama_series_im_prof_sir_colin_blakemore/


Description	Action and Awareness Workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Action & Awareness Workshop (17-19 March 2016), with James Tresilian (Psychology, Warwick); Elisabeth Pacherie (CNRS, Institut Jean-Nicod); Eraldo Paulesu (Milan); Hong Yu Wong (Tübingen); Joshua Shepherd (Oxford); Gabriella Bottini (Pavia); Frederique de Vignemont (CNRS, Institut Jean-Nicod); Nicholas Holmes (Nottingham); Tom Crowther (Philosophy, Warwick); Günther Knoblich (CEU); Giacomo Novembre (Western Sydney) Rationale: How do awareness and action relate to one another? A prima facie plausible view has it that their connection is limited to the following: conscious perceptual experience guides fine-grained motor movements as well as allowing us to make decisions about whether and how to act; action is a means to altering what we perceive. In contemporary philosophy of perception and perception science there are two movements that seem to pull in opposite directions with respect to this intuition. On the one hand action-oriented theories of perception maintain that the intuition that action is just a means to altering sensory input doesn't go far enough. On the other hand, a body of empirical evidence indicates that visual processing consists of two dissociable streams: one in the service of conscious perceptual experience; the other dedicated to the processing of information for the guidance of motor actions. Recently it has been claimed that the dual systems hypothesis should be extended to include audition and touch. The possibility that there are distinct systems for motor control and for perception in each of vision, audition and touch raises questions about the possibilities for and the limits of cross-modal integration: how can we determine which of these systems is involved in a particular cross-modal interaction, and how might we obtain evidence that an interaction has an impact on perceptual experience? What is more, if we focus only on exteroceptive perception of the world around us, as above-i.e., we take awareness to inform us only about the way the world is-we miss out on the ways in which we come to know about our own and the actions of others through perception, bodily awareness and a sense of agency. Topics to be covered include: • Multisensory integration and perception for action • Multisensory object representation and perceptual activity • The phenomenology of agency • The perception of action & action possibilities • Motor representation and shared agency
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/research/researchcentres/wma/current/rethinkingthesense...


Description	An Image of Sound
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	I was interviewed by producer Andrew Dawes for a BBC Radio 4 programme 'An Image of Sound' broadcast on 7 February 2015
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b051w066


Description	Art participation project - Moving Water
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Generated an interest in art collaborations. Sparked conversation about the subject. This has continued our collaboration with Sensory Sites, an art collective.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/files/2014/05/Moving-Water-Press-release-June-2014-update.pdf


Description	Article in the Daily Mail about the importance of caution in interpreting progress in medical research: Is this spinal breakthrough on a par with man walking on the moon? Daily Mail, 22 October 2014, p 14.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	The article described recent, highly publicised success in a small-scale clinical trial in the use of cell therapy to encourage spinal cord repair. The intention was to inform the large readership of the Daily Mail (> 2 million) about the scientific background and to urge caution in interpreting this success. Much correspondence with patients
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2802475/is-spinal-breakthrough-par-man-walking-moon-asks-p...


Description	Article, NPR website
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Article which sparked readers' comments
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Article, Science
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Article which sparked readers' comments
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Article, Washington Post
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Article and interview
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Audi talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Generated discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/news-and-events/ppn-seminar...


Description	BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Jeremy Vine Show (BBC Radio 2) Interviewed by Jeremy Vine about accusations of bias in recommendations to government about diet and obesity because of commercial funding of research by scientists on the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	BBC Radio 4 10 part series on the senses: The Uncommon Senses
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Intended to inform people about the results of recent research on the senses by artists, engineers, neuroscientists, philosophers, psychologists. Features many researchers who are funded by AHRC Science and Culture Large Grant Rethinking the Senses and well as many of their collaborators and partners.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08km812/episodes/guide


Description	BBC Radio 4, 6 o'clock News - sale of books by Royal Institution
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	6 o'clock news (BBC Radio 4). Interviewed about the auction of historical books from the collection of the Royal Institution.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	BBC Radio 4, Hashtags of the Year
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	2015 Hashtags of the Year (BBC Radio 4). Interviewed for a report on #Distractingly sexy, following comments made by the Nobel Prizewinning scientist Sir Tim Hunt
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	BBC Radio 5 Live, Stephen Nolan Show
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Stephen Nolan Show (BBC Radio 5 Live). Interviewed about the effect of digital technology on the human brain.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	BBC Radio London. Interview on misophonia.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Jo Good Show (BBC Radio London). Interviewed about misophonia - emotional reactions to familiar repetitive sounds.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	BBC Today interview on Hearing Wagner
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Interviewed by Jim Naughtie about 'Hearing Wagner', an event in the Being Human Festival, presenting the results of an experiment on the physiological and psychological reactions of people experiencing the whole of Wagner's Ring cycle
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	BBC Today programme discussion on possible influence of industry on advice to government
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Interviewed by John Humphrys, with Fiona Godley, Editor of the BMJ, about accusations of bias in recommendations to government about diet and obesity because of commercial funding of research by scientists on the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	BBC World Service debate on the rights of chimpanzees
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Newshour Extra, BBC World Service (also broadcast on National Public Radio in USA). Debate with Colin McGinn, Steven Wise, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Carl Cohen and Jenny Lee, chaired by Owen Bennett Jones, about whether chimpanzees should have legal rights.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	BBC World Service interview on rights of great apes
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Newshour, BBC World Service (also broadcast on National P{public Radio in USA). Interviewed about the decision of an Argentinian court to give an orang-utan rights as a non-human person.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	BBC World at One broadcast on the hard problem of consciousness
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Discussion with Julian Baggini about the Hard Problem of consciousness, presented by Mark Mardell on BBC Radio 4 The World at One
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Beer: History, Philosophy, Science
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Co-organised the "Beer: History, Philosophy, Science" workshop and tasting that was open to the public.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/outreach/beer-history-philo...


Description	Berthouze talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Generated discussion Informed research of project
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/2014-15-seminar-4/


Description	Blakemore plenary lecture - Mind the gap
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This lecture was entitled "Mind the gap: the gulf between brain and mind". It was presented at the annual meeting of the Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC) in Genova, December 2015. The lecture focused on the nature of subjectivity and made the novel argument that the neural representation on which subjective experience supervenes is not the neural architecture responsible for decision making and the control of action. It provoked a great deal of discussion with continued into the evening.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Blakemore plenary lecture - The science of art
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This lecture was entitled "The science of art: destroying the magic or enhancing the delight?" It took place during the conference on Social Change in the Brain Age (10-11 September 2015). This meeting was jointly sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia and The Human Mind Project. The lecture was followed by a debate with Professor David Friedberg, Director, The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, London. The purpose was to engage a large audience of researchers, students and others, interested in social behaviour, in the role of art in human communication. The discussion with the audience was energetic and it continued for a long time after the talks and the formal debate. As a result of the discussion, we are discussing collaborations in experimental research with Professor Freedber§
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://humanmind.ac.uk/events-2/events/social-change-in-the-brain-age-10-11-september-2015/


Description	Blakemore talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Generated discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/news-and-events/ppn-seminar...


Description	Blindness, Dana Centre
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	Yes
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	talk spared questions and discussion afterward talk was filmed and put on line Was contacted by another documentary/film maker to advice on her on-going research for a new documentary on colour-blindness
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.danacentre.org.uk/events/2014/05/07/729


Description	British Science Festival
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Public talk on multisensory influences on food perception, which sparked discussions afterwards and led to a report in Vogue
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Centenary Lecture The Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	This invited talk, celebrating the foundation of the Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, was attended by many sixth formers from schools in the Cambridge area. It stimulated a lot of discussion. Interest in careers in science.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Central St. Martins School of Art & Design, London invited keynote address to design students
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	extensive discussion and requests to work in lab on design-related projects increasing interdisciplinary research collaboration
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Cheltenham Science Festival
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	I ran a research stall part of Cheltenham's Fesitval's Discover Zone, welcoming over 9,500 members of the public, including 6,500 pupils and teachers from 95 local schools.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/engagement/cheltenham-fest...


Description	Chelthenham Science Festival
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	80 people attended the talk, which sparked discussions afterwards and was reported in national media
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Christiansen/Gruenbaum talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	There was fruitful discussion afterwards. A workshop based on similar themes has been scheduled with one of the speakers for 2015
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/introductory-event/


Description	Co-Host of CBC's Spark
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	I was co-host of CBC's "Spark" programme about "Rewiring our Senses" (Programme No. 268) first broadcast December 7, 2014.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.cbc.ca/spark/episodes/2014/12/07/spark-268


Description	Colour Public Lecture June 2016
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	'The Philosophy and Psychology of Colour' public lecture at the Glasgow Science Festival. (150 attendees)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/outreach/glasgow-science-fe...


Description	Conference - binding within and between the senses
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Type Of Presentation	workshop facilitator
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	There was fruitful discussion afterwards. We have had members from the audience requesting to be involved in collaborations and experiments. Positive working relationships and possible future collaborations with speakers and participants have been established.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/international-conference-binding-within-and-between-the-sens...


Description	Conference Talk Mental Imagery
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Talk at an international conference, led to discussions and exchanges afterwards, including plans for future collaborations
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	Contribution to BBC Radio documentary, Destiny and the Brain
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	I was interviewed by Hannah Critchlow for a documentary, Destiny and the Brain, which she presented for BBC Radio 4. The topic of the documentary was the extent to which human cognitive function is genetically determined.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00050p8


Description	Contributor and demonstrator at Science Museum Lates associated with Cravings Exhibition, Sept 2015
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Large number of participants who participated in sensory testing and who followed up wanting to know more about the research we do and how we advise chefs and restaurants.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Curated dinner at The Ling Institute. 16th May, Porto Allegre, Brazil.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Smith, B., & Spence, C. (2015). Curated dinner at The Ling Institite. 16th May, Porto Allegre, Brazil.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Darwin Lecture, Cambridge
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This was the final Darwin Lecture in the current series on Vision, organised by Darwin College Cambridge. I spoke about the Perception of Visual Space and reported work done as part of the Rethinking the Senses project. There was a very lively discussion and several members of the audiences said that their views about the nature of perception had been changed.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019


Description	Debate: The Illusion of Sense: Do our senses radically limit our understanding? at LSE 15.03.17
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Panel debate as curtain raiser to How the Light Gets In Festival 2016
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://iai.tv/video/the-illusion-of-sense


Description	Der Tagesspiegel
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel (02/10/2013) has an article on Fiona Macpherson's and Dimitris Platchias' Hallucination volume.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013
URL	http://www.tagesspiegel.de/meinung/was-wissen-schafft-die-welt-in-uns/8875054.html


Description	Doherty talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Generated discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/news-and-events/ppn-seminar...


Description	Durgin talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Generated discussion Informed future research plans
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/the-angular-expansion-hypothesis-of-locomotor-space-percepti...


Description	Durgin talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Generated discussions Informed research plans
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/what-is-embodied-perception-the-embodiment-of-a-critical-rev...


Description	Durgin talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Generated discussion Informed own research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/2014-15-seminar-2/


Description	Eating Well Workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	At this interdisciplinary workshop researchers and practitioners shared diverse expertise relevant to what is at stake when people gather to eat. A tremendously rich set of factors converge in meals, affecting the meaning, pleasures and healthiness of daily life, the transmission and vitality of cultures, and the sustainability and fairness of large-scale food policies and practices. This workshop aimed to integrate our understanding of these factors, with the hope of developing ideas for a 'future of meals' that is well-informed, is ethical and makes the most of meals' experiential, creative and cultural potential.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Erasmus Darwin Memorial Lecture, Lichfield Science and Engineering Society
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	This annual named lecture stimulated interested in the evolution of human culture. Much correspondence with members of the audience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	European Researchers' Night Event (Glasgow)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	Yes
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Our exhibits elicited discussions with members of the public and other researchers, raising awareness of the research project, research centre, and of philosophy of mind in general. The exhibition put us in contact with several researchers who are working in related areas that expressed an interest in our research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.explorathon.co.uk/glasgow


Description	Exhibition talk - Hallucination
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	After the talk there was lots of interest and discussion from the audience TBC
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/philosophical-views/


Description	Experimenter, Tate Modern Exchange Days, Taste at Tate, 29 & 30th April 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Installations and experiments for the general public. Presented 14 experiments on taste with a team of philosophers, neuroscientists and psychologists. Attendance of over 1900 people talking part in experiences and experiments to get them thinking about and engaging with taste.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/tate-exchange/workshop/tasty-and-smelly-different-way-co...


Description	Explorathon 2014
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	I supervised Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience Postdocs Keith Wilson and Jennifer Corns in showcasing the CSPE's research at the 'Explorathon' European researchers night at the Glasgow Science Centre.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/explorathon


Description	Explorathon 2016
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	I and other Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience researchers contributed to Explorathon 2016 running a research stall on perception at Explorathon 2016 in the Glasgow Science Centre.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2006
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/outreach/explorathon-2016/


Description	FT Literary Festival. Oxford. 25th March
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Plotkin, F., & Spence, C. (2015). Music in the mouth: How different kinds of music affect the way things taste. FT Literary Festival. Oxford. 25th March.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Facebook and Twitter
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	I run a lively Facebook page for the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience, posting news of our activities and news items about perception. As of March 2016 we have 1,585 'likes', and our weekly 'reach' is about 1,600 too. From 2015 we linked the Facebook page to a Twitter account, that now also posts the same items.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017
URL	http://www.facebook.com/Perceptual.Experience/


Description	Feeling Sound. Conversation with Evelyn Glennie at the Cheltenham Science Festival
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	I had a conversation with the leading percussionist, Evelyn Glennie, who is profoundly deaf, about the kinds of perceptual experiences that she has, in front of a large audience at the Cheltenham Science Festival. I demonstrated with various acoustic stimuli, the range of normal auditory sound sensitivity, and Evelyn Glennie played various instruments with active interaction with members of the audience, to show the way in which vibrations that we normally experience as sound can be felt through mechanical sensitivity of the skin and other parts of the body. She also spoke movingly about her experience of increasing deafness in her childhood.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Feeling Sound: Evelyn Glennie in Conversation with Colin Blakemore. Public event at the British Library.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	I had a conversation with the leading percussionist, Evelyn Glennie, who is profoundly deaf, about the kinds of perceptual experiences that she has, in front of a large audience at the Cheltenham Science Festival. I demonstrated with various acoustic stimuli, the range of normal auditory sound sensitivity, and Evelyn Glennie played various instruments with active interaction with members of the audience, to show the way in which vibrations that we normally experience as sound can be felt through mechanical sensitivity of the skin and other parts of the body. She also spoke movingly about her experience of increasing deafness in her childhood. Evelyn and I were invited to take part in this event as a result of the similar public 'conversation' that we had earlier in the year at the Cheltenham Science Festival.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Fifth Sense public launch
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	The event continued a collaboration with an organisation, enabling future work. It generated widespread interest in the topic. There was national press coverage of the subject matter of the event (anosmia), generated from the event. We are collaborating further with Fifth Sense to support a wider understanding of this subject.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://fifthsenseuk.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/fifth-sense-charity-launch-report/


Description	Food, the Brain and Us, Public Event Royal Institution
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	The success of this evening event which involving interdisciplinary talks and practical tasting experiments prompted questions from the audience. A partnership for possible future events was also developed with the Royal Institution. This event was attended by an Italian television producer who invited the team to host a similar event for the opening of an exhibition, Gusto at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan in February 2014. The film of the event made by the Royal Institution has had over 10,000 views
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013
URL	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygdbRCdsM6g&list=PLbnrZHfNEDZz256ho3Q4gt7YrF2xApo5g&index=18


Description	Gastrophysics, AHRC Science in Culture and Institute of Physics, Being Human Event, 24.11.17, Senate House, London
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Planned and presented Being Human public engagement event on how physics has contributed to understanding, processing and preparing foods. With Institute of Physics.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gastrophysics-tickets-27699912183#


Description	Glasgow Perception & Cognition Workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	33 attendees, including 9 international speakers, participated in a research-intensive workshop on the topic of 'Perception and Cognition: Top-Down Influences in Perceptual Experience' over two days at the University of Glasgow. This corresponded to one of the RTS project's phase 2 work packages and delivered important interdisciplinary knowledge exchange and in-depth discussion of the topic which will feed into future research and publications.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/projects/rethinking-the-sen...


Description	Glasgow Science Centre Mind Matters
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Glasgow Science Centre plans to turn its temporary exhibition 'Mind Matters' which is about perceptual illusions into a permanent exhibition. I, and a postdoc of mine, are providing some consultancy on the exhibition, and myself and the Glasgow Science Centre have applied together for an AHRC collaborative PhD doctoral award to fund a student who will build on these interactions. N/A yet
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Glasgow Science Festival 2015
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Organised the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience's contribution to a public engagement event that took place on 6 & 7 June 2015 in the Kelvingrove Museum as part of the Glasgow Science Festival. We had stalls presenting a large number of visual, touch, taste and smell illusions and effects, including Patrick Hughes Reverspectives, the rubber hand illusion, ambiguous smells, testing for supertasters, demonstration of olfactory component in taste, motion illusions, a mirascope, a hyperscope, after-images in different eyes, and so on. We carried out an experiment on the public testing their description of the waterfall illusion. The stalls were manned by ourselves and by various other post-docs and PhD students. Members of the roject also gave talks as part of the festival: Charles Spence on 'The Perfect Meal' and Michael Brady on 'The Value of Suffering' (120 people attended each) on 7 June 2015, and myself and Colin Blakemore on 'Vision, Perception, and Illusion', on 8 June 2015 (240 people attended). After my talk I ran an experiment on the audience investigating their experience of the Waterfall Illusion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/news-and-events/archive/hea...


Description	Glasgow Science Festival 2016
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Organised the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience's contribution to the Glasgow Science Festival, consisting of a research stall in the Kelvingrove Museum for two days. We presented a large number of visual, auditory, and, taste illusions and effects. The stalls were manned by myself and other members of the CSPE. Members of the CSPE also gave talks as part of the festival: Myself and David Simmons on the Philosophy and Psychology of Colour (over 150 registered participants), and David Bain on Pains that are Not Unpleasant (over 100 registered participants).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/outreach/glasgow-science-fe...


Description	Glasgow Synchronising the Senses workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Research-intensive interdisciplinary workshop in connection with the 'Mind' work package of the RTS grant, and a forthcoming 'Synchronising the Senses' pilot project funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Attended by 25 people, including international speakers from Canada and the Netherlands, and generated a productive dialogue between philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists concerning the latest research on timing and time-dependent processing issues in multisensory experience, and the temporal structure of perceptual experience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://gla.ac.uk/cspe/projects/rethinking-the-senses/synchronising-the-senses/


Description	Guest Lecture Psychobiology Section, British Psychological Society
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This invited lecture was planned to inform experimental psychologists about the Rethinking the Senses project. Continuing interest from colleagues.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Heil talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Generated discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/news-and-events/ppn-seminar...


Description	Hidden Senses
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Lots of discussion in advance (event yet to happen) Good impact on social media (event still to take place)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/the-hidden-senses-the-secrets-of-taste-and-smell/


Description	Hummel talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Generated discussions and enabled the sharing of research ideas. Paved the way for future collaborations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/special-event/


Description	Impossible Lego Object Exhibit
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Organised the 'Impossible Lego Object' exhibit, one item in the Objects of Research exhibition at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/news/archives/2015/june/headline_409824_en.html


Description	Individuating the Senses Kent Lecture
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	Yes
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Gave a talk "Individuating the Senses" at the The Human Senses: Inspire Gatherings, School of Music and Fine Art, University of Kent, a public seminar series run by art school students. Discussion of the senses across disciplines and in the arts.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://inspiregatherings.wix.com/senses


Description	Industry talk Copenhagen
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). Neurogastronomy: Neuroscience-inspired multisensory design for food and beverage sector. BØRSEN FØDEVAREKONFERENCE 2015: Fremtidens fødevarer skaber vækst. Copenhagen, 1st September.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Interactive installation
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Together with my collaborators, Zoltán Molnár and Irina Bystron, we worked with artist Maria Lopes to create an interactive art installation exploring neuroscience and consciousness as part of the Oxford Science & Ideas Festival 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018


Description	International Multisensory Research
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Academic talk
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Interviewed by Harry Pettit for an article entitled, "Can you HEAR this silent GIF? Mind-bending audio illusion tricks your brain into thinking you hear a sound while watching a noiseless animation", for the Mail Online, published 4 December 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Interviewed by Harry Pettit for an article entitled, "Can you HEAR this silent GIF? Mind-bending audio illusion tricks your brain into thinking you hear a sound while watching a noiseless animation", for the Mail Online, published 4 December 2017. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5143355/Silent-animation-hear-baffles-internet-users.html
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5143355/Silent-animation-hear-baffles-internet-users....


Description	Interviewed by Jeff Gailus for piece entitled "We Should Count Balance As One of the Senses" for Nautilus science magazine, published on 3 March 2017.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Interviewed by Jeff Gailus for piece entitled "We Should Count Balance As One of the Senses" for Nautilus science magazine, published on 3 March 2017.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://nautil.us/blog/we-should-count-balance-as-one-of-the-senses


Description	Interviewed by Nicola Twilley for an article on "Seeing with Your Tongue", for The New Yorker, published 15 May 2017.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Interviewed by Nicola Twilley for an article on "Seeing with Your Tongue", for The New Yorker, published 15 May 2017.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/15/seeing-with-your-tongue


Description	Invited Lecture, The Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	I was asked to talk to the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution about research on visual perception in relation to the visual arts and architecture.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018


Description	Invited Summerschool talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). Flavour. Seminars presented at the Matters of Taste: The Neuroscience and Philosophy of Taste. Tübingen International Summer School. 20-23rd September.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Invited industry conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). Does the colour of a restaurant affect how our food tastes? Session with Jozef Youssef & Afroditi Krassa. 100% Design. Kensington, Olympia, 23-26th September.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Invited industry talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). Food and music: The sound of taste. NZ Hospitality Industry Summit, 13th September, Aukland, New Zealand.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Invited industry talk Spence, C. (2015). Gastrophysics: The perfect meal. Google, London. 18th Sept.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). Gastrophysics: The perfect meal. Google, London. 18th Sept.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Invited keynote Spence, C. (2015). Auditory aspects of multisensory design. Keynote presentation given at SI15 Symposium on Sound in Sensory Interactions: Perception and Design. Singapore, 21st August.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). Auditory aspects of multisensory design. Keynote presentation given at SI15 Symposium on Sound in Sensory Interactions: Perception and Design. Singapore, 21st August.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Invited keynote Spence, C. (2015). Neuroscience-inspired multisensory design. What design can do. 22-23 May, Amsterdam.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). Neuroscience-inspired multisensory design. What design can do. 22-23 May, Amsterdam.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Invited lecture at Gordon Research Conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This was an invited lecture at a Gordon Research Conference on Neuroplasticity of Sensory Systems in Hong Kong. There was extensive discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018


Description	Invited presentation Spence, C. (2015). Does angularity tell you anything about taste of cheese? The Ricard Foundation, 9th June, Paris.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). Does angularity tell you anything about taste of cheese? The Ricard Foundation, 9th June, Paris.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Invited presentation Spence, C. (2015). The multisensory coffee drinking experience. The Inaugural Re:co Symposium, 16-18th June, Gothenburg.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). The multisensory coffee drinking experience. The Inaugural Re:co Symposium, 16-18th June, Gothenburg.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Invited professional society lecture
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2016). "Off the plate dining": How chefs, culinary artists/ designers, & food companies will be delivering flavours in the 21st Century. The British Society of Flavorists and Perfumers Annual Lecture, 28th January.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Invited public take
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2016). Neuroscience-inspired cutlery: Just what does the future hold? And what will we be holding in the future. V&A Museum Friday Late 'Spoon, knife, fork' public lecture, 29th January.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Invited session Smith, B., Blumenthal, H., Deroy, O., & Spence, C. (2015). An evening with Heston Blumenthal. Cheltenham Science Fesitval, 4th June.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Smith, B., Blumenthal, H., Deroy, O., & Spence, C. (2015). An evening with Heston Blumenthal. Cheltenham Science Festival, 4th June.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Invited session Spence, C. (2015). Illusions to bend your mind with Quentin Cooper & Roger Newport. Cheltenham Science Festival, 5th June.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). Illusions to bend your mind with Quentin Cooper & Roger Newport. Cheltenham Science Festival, 5th June.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Invited session Spence, C., & Youssef, J. (2015). Gastrophysics: The art and science of the table. ALSO Festival. Warwickshire, 21st June.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Spence, C., & Youssef, J. (2015). Gastrophysics: The art and science of the table. ALSO Festival. Warwickshire, 21st June.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Invited session Spence, C., & Youssef, J. (2015). The psychology of taste. Cheltenham Science Festival, 3rd June.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Spence, C., & Youssef, J. (2015). The psychology of taste. Cheltenham Science Fesitval, 3rd June.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Invited talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). In touch with the future. Invited keynote at 10th Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces conference (ITS 2015). Madeira, Portugal, 15-18th November.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Invited talk /demo
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). Beer and music. Geen Man Festival at Courtyard. 12th September, London.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Invited talk Spence, C. (2015). Gastrophysics: The new sciences of the table. Hexagram public lecture and tasting. Montreal, Canada, 17/10/2015.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). Gastrophysics: The new sciences of the table. Hexagram public lecture and tasting. Montreal, Canada, 17/10/2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Invited talk Spence, C. (2015). The perfect meal. Glasgow Science Festival. 7th June, Glasgow.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). The perfect meal. Glasgow Science Festival. 7th June, Glasgow.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Invited talk at Bienniale Spence, C. (2015). The perfect meal: How we sense food. Aquae: Food, water, and health conference. Venice, 19-20th June.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). The perfect meal: How we sense food. Aquae: Food, water, and health conference. Venice, 19-20th June.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Invited talk industry conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). The perfect meal: On the multisensory science of food and dining. The 1st International Neurogastronomy Symposium. 7th November, Lexington, KN.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Invited task at Fashion and the senses conference. London College of Fashion, 27th March.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). Neuroscience-inspired multisensory design. Fashion and the senses conference. London College of Fashion, 27th March.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Isaac talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Generated discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/news-and-events/ppn-seminar...


Description	Johnston talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Generated discussion after the talk. Fostered collaboration.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/seminar-8/


Description	Kentridge talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Generated discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/news-and-events/ppn-seminar...


Description	Keynote Lecture at IEEE World Conference, Rio
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	I was invited to give a plenary lecture at the IEEE World Conference on Computational Intelligence, Rio de Janiero. This was an excellent opportunity to talk about the importance of plasticity in neural computation, and to compare the known characteristics of neural processing and conventional computation. There was much discussion, which continues in correspondence with a number of computer scientists.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018


Description	Keynote Lecture on Healthy Ageing, Hong Kong
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Keynote Lecture at the International Symposium on Healthy Ageing, University of Hong Kong, attended by a large audiences - mainly researchers in this field, but also clinicians and individuals working in the area of health policy. There was much discussion about the future implications of increasing life expectancy.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018


Description	Keynote Speech at World AI Conference, Shanghai
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited Keynote lecture at the Brain-Inspired Intelligence Forum - part of the World AI Conference in Shanghai. This was a further opportunity to discuss the potential for applying principles of neural computation to artificial computing systems.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018


Description	Keynote at International Association for the Study of Affective Touch (IASAT). London, 21-23 March
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). Affective touch: Commercial applications. Keynote given at The 1st International Association for the Study of Affective Touch (IASAT). London, 21-23 March.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Keynote lecture at the Hutchesons' Annual Approaching Philosophy Conference for school children
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	'Illusion and Perception', keynote lecture at the Hutchesons' Annual Approaching Philosophy Conference for school children plus discussion afterwards. Over 140 pupils and 18 teachers from around Scotland attended.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.hutchesons.org/news/2407_hutchesons-philosophy-conference-2015


Description	Knowledge Exchange Event, Birmingham
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Head-to-Head (16 September 2017) brought together philosophers and members of the public for a series of talks and discussions about some of the most interesting and challenging questions we face about the nature of our minds. There were three sessions: Making Senses of Our Senses; Is Immoral Art Aesthetically Bad?; Believing Badly. The event was held at ThinkTank, Birmingham.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Kolarik, A. J. (2015). "Navigate: When sounds open space for the blind," Sounds that Move Us event, demonstration at the Being Human Festival, London.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	The activity consisted of a talk given to the general public as part of the Being Human Festival at Senate House in the University of London. The talk discussed how sound from echolocation and sensory substitution could be used to help blind people navigate, and what the nature of the new perception from sensory substitution is (whether blind people using sound from sensory substitution devices were actually seeing using sound). This was followed by a demonstration allowing members of the public to use electronic sensory substitution devices while blindfolded to detect and navigate around an obstacle in their path, who reported increased knowledge and interest in the use of sound to help those with visual loss explore their environment.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Longo talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Discussion after the talk Informed thinking on our research project
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/seminar/


Description	Lycan seminar
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Generated discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/news-and-events/ppn-seminar...


Description	Lycan talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Generated discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/news-and-events/ppn-seminar...


Description	Macpherson & Wilson, Late Night Science
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Public talks on The Waterfall Illusion (Fiona Macpherson) and The Argument from Illusion (Keith Wilson) at The Research Club, Ashton Lane, Glasgow as part of a 'Late Night Science' event on Illusion and Perception. Gathered data from participants via questionnaires which reported positive feedback and changes of opinion in relation to the subject matter.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Mad Hatter's tea party, Edinburgh Science Festival
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	Yes
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Questions and discussion Interest in multisensory aspects of perception
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Margarete Wuensche Memorial Lecture Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Discussion about the evolution of human culture. Continuing correspondence with academics and members of the public.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Media Interview, 'We have more than five senses', Aeon 02.11.16
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Short film on recent research on the senses in philosophy and neuroscience
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	https://aeon.co/videos/aristotle-was-wrong-and-so-are-we-there-are-far-more-than-five-senses


Description	Mole talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Generated discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/news-and-events/ppn-seminar...


Description	Moving Water
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Took part in "Moving Water", an art participation project by Sensory Sites and collaborators at the October Gallery, London.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/moving-water


Description	Mullins Public Lecture, Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Talk (on brain and mind) stimulated much discussion. Much interest of school pupils in how to pursue a career in cognitive neuroscience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Nakuya talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Generated discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/news-and-events/ppn-seminar...


Description	Nanay talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Fruitful discussions after the talk. Continued dialogue with the speaker.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/seminar-6/


Description	National Gallery Course, Heaven in Mind?
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Co-tutor (with Minna Moore Ede) for a National Gallery Course, Heaven in Mind?, based on the exhibition Visions of Paradise: Botticini's Palmieri Altarpiece. Admission was by ticket. The course was attended by about 50 people.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/calendar/heaven-in-mind-course-14-january-2016-11-00


Description	Nesta event London
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). In Conversation: BitterSuite & Charles Spence. Nesta, 14th March London.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Neuroscience-inspired multisensory design invited lecture at ACE 2014. 11-15th October. Funchal, Madeira.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Talk resulted in extensive questions and suggested grant application Colleagues raised possibility of interdisciplinary grant collaboration
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.ace2014.info/


Description	Noppeney talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	The talk by an external speaker generated discussion and allowed the project team to consider new lines of enquiry. We have been able to learn from this talk and apply it to our own research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/multi-day-event/


Description	O'Dea talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Generated discussions Informed our own thinking
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/seminar-2/


Description	Opinion article on the contribution of immigrants to UK science: Visa curbs could make Nobel glory a thing of the past. Thunderer. The Times, 10 October 2014, p 26
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Considerable online commentary. Much correspondence with academic and media colleagues. Supportive correspondence from Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Laureate from Cambridge
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Panel Discussion at the Transform Awards and Conference, 21st April, London.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). Beyond engagement: How sensory branding influences consumer perception and buying behaviour. Panel Discussion at the Transform Awards and Conference, 21st April, London.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Participation in Malvern Festival of Ideas 2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	I gave the opening keynote lecture at the Malvern Festival of Ideas, in Malvern. The title of my talk was "The past, present and future of the human brain"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	http://www.malvernfestivalofideas.org.uk


Description	PhilonoUS
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	Interviewed by Emma Shephard for PhilonoUS, the University of Sheffield Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy, Spring 2016 edition.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	Philosophical Views of Hallucination and Perception
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	'Philosophical Views of Hallucination and Perception', public lecture at the Out of Our Heads art exhibition on hallucination at Shoreditch Town Hall, London Discussion with the public, artists, philoophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://oooheads.org/


Description	Philosophy of Hallucination and Perception Glasgow Masterclass
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	Yes
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented 'Philosophy of Hallucination and Perception', public lecture with over 100 registered participants, lunchtime master class series, Centre for Open Studies, University of Glasgow. Discussion afterwards and by e-mail with participants.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/staff/news/headline_363916_en.html


Description	Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience (PPN)- Research Seminar at Glasgow University- "Propositional" attitudes?
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Seminar at Glasgow University by William G. Lycan (UNC Chapel Hill): "Propositional" attitudes? With rare exceptions, when philosophers talk about "propositional attitudes," they mean belief. And their views on attitude content in particular are extrapolated from that of belief content. (What could be simpler?: When S believes that P, the content of S's belief is that P.) But in fact, for other attitudes, the respective notions of content vary dramatically. In previous works I have argued this for the case of desire. In the present paper I will look at intending, wishing and wondering, arguing that in each case the relevant notion(s) of content work differently in each case.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/news-and-events/ppn-seminar...


Description	Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience (PPN)- Research Seminar at Glasgow University- Human Echolocation of Contour Shape
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Seminar presented by Lore Thaler (Psychology, Durham) on Human Echolocation of Contour Shape: Echolocation is the ability to infer spatial information from sound echoes. Humans can echolocate for example by making mouth clicks. There are various examples in the literature showing that humans can use echo-acoustic cues to avoid obstacles, determine object distance or location. In previous work it has also been shown that people can even echolocate shape of objects. Importantly, in the case of 2D contour shape (i.e. triangle, square, vertical rectangle, horizontal rectangle) we have also shown that perception of shape is only possible if people move their head (Milne et al, 2015, APP). In my talk I will describe recent work from our lab that has investigated the possible acoustic features enabling human echolocation of 2D contour-shape. I will also describe predictions about behaviour arising from these acoustic analyses. I will also describe recent work in which we investigated how expectations about object shape affect performance in a contour shape discrimination task.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/news-and-events/ppn-seminar


Description	Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience (PPN)- Research Seminar at Glasgow University- Is radical error in the introspection of. . .
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Seminar at University of Glasgow by Takuya Niikawa (Chiba): Is radical error in the introspection of phenomenal character possible? In defending naïve realism against the argument from hallucination, William Fish and Heather Logue have argued that naïve realists should be committed to eliminativism about hallucination; hence stating that total and internally perfect hallucinations do not have perceptual phenomenology. This view presupposes the possibility of radical error in the introspection of phenomenal character. In other words, it is possible for a cognitively unimpaired subject (e.g. who is not drunk or does not have Anton's syndrome) to mistakenly judge, via introspection, that she is in a mental state with perceptual phenomenology, even though she is not in such a mental state in reality. Is such a radical introspective error really possible? What theory of introspection should naïve realists hold in order to coherently explain this radical introspective error? In this talk I will argue that in order to give a satisfying account of such radical introspective error, we need to postulate that hallucinations have a certain type of non-perceptual phenomenology such that (1) it is not present in the case of veridical perception, (2) it is contentful, and (3) it is psychologically real. Finally I will conclude that a feeling of reality, a sort of existential feeling, can perhaps meet these three requirements.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/news-and-events/ppn-seminar...


Description	Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience (PPN)- Research Seminar at Glasgow University- Rethinking the body, Rethinking the brain
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Seminar at Glasgow University by Anna Sedda (Heriot-Watt University): Rethinking the Body, Rethinking the Brain Human beings show astonishing differences, in personality, memory and attentional skills, and emotional expressions, to name some. However, we all share one feature: we have a unique physical body. This body can be modified in its external appearance (i.e. by changing the skin colour through tanning beds), can be loved or hated, can be used or not by being active sport players or lazy television watchers. In fringe cases, we can also exchange a part of our body with somebody else, as in hand transplantations. Nonetheless, for (almost) all of us, defined features characterize the body, such as the acceptable number of limbs, a skin temperature that we consider normal and the set of movements that we can perform. Regardless, cognitive theories that try to explain how the brain represents this physical body produced a plethora of dichotomic, triadic and even more itemised versions of body representation. During this talk, I will concentrate on recent findings that challenge the idea of a "canonical" body representation divided into components: I will present results on body representation in healthy individuals, patients with spinal cord injuries and individuals suffering from body integrity identity disorder. These results shall convince us that theories on body representation need to apply the Occam razor principle: why decomposing something that works only if united? Importantly, understanding how we represent our bodies could contribute a missing piece to the understanding of how we represent ourselves and could promote a new vision of studying "the brain" instead of its functions singly.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/news-and-events/ppn-seminar...


Description	Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience (PPN)- Research Seminar at Glasgow University- Senses as capacities
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Seminar at Glasgow University by Casey O'Callaghan (Washington University in St. Louis): Senses as capacities I'll present a novel account of the nature of the senses and their differences that accommodates richly multisensory perceptual capacities and experiences. According to this account, senses are collections of perceptual capacities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/news-and-events/ppn-seminar...


Description	Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience (PPN)- Research Seminar at Glasgow University- The intentionality of smell
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Seminar at Glasgow University by William G. Lycan & David Simmons (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): The intentionality of smell; This paper argues against opponents that smell does represent. Then it defends the Lycan (1996) view of what smell represents, viz., miasmas in the air, against more recent competitors put forward by Clare Batty and Ben Young. It concludes by considering a "layering" thesis: that smell represents commonsensical distal objects and kinds, but only by representing miasmas.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/news-and-events/ppn-seminar...


Description	Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience (PPN)- Research Seminar at Glasgow University- Top-down modulation, cognitive . . .
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Seminar at Glasgow University by Wayne Wu (Carnegie Mellon University): Top-down modulation, cognitive penetration and visual attention While it is well established that there are massive feedback connections in the brain, and hence the circuitry required for top-down modulation on vision, there remains a debate about whether there is cognitive penetration of vision. This talk will discuss the ideas of top-down modulation and cognitive penetration in the context of shifts of visual attention. I begin with an account of what attention is, given some controversy regarding the possibility of even defining it. After discussing conceptual issues about cognitive penetration, I argue that attention provides the best supported example of cognitive penetration: intentions fix attention. This leads to the question whether all top-down modulation counts as cognitive penetration or whether there are other forms of modulation. At the core will be the idea of computational models as explanatory models that can link psychological and neural explanations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/news-and-events/ppn-seminar...


Description	Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience (PPN)- Research Seminar at Glasgow University- What is timbre realism?
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Seminar at Glasgow University by Alistair Isaac (University of Edinburgh): What is timbre realism? Timbre is that quality of a sound that distinguishes it other than its pitch, loudness, or duration. Historically, it has often been thought of as the auditory analog of colour, that property of surfaces that distinguishes them other than location, orientation, and extent. The analogy between colour and timbre has been (implicitly) exploited in the philosophy of sound to motivate a form of timbre realism apparently analogous to colour physicalism-the view that colours reduce to surface spectral reflectance types. Timbre "physicalism" reduces timbre to the mechanical process types of distal sound-producing events. In this talk, I first offer some background from the psychophysics of timbre to further clarify the analogy between colour and timbre. However, some considerations from the physics of vibrating bodies will lead to the conclusion that timbre "physicalism" is ultimately disanalogous to colour physicalism. Rather, I argue, the reduction of timbres to distal mechanical process types is better understood as a form of ecological realism in the tradition of J. J. Gibson. I conclude with some morals for both the philosophy and the psychology of sound perception.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011,2016
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/news-and-events/ppn-seminar...


Description	Poetry Reading by Dr Nuala Watt
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Co-organised a lecture and poetry reading by Dr Nuala Watt at the University of Glasgow for the public as part of the Understanding the Senses: Past and Present project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2006


Description	Pollick talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Generated discussion on the topic. Widened our audience reach - dancers attended the seminar - and this has broadened the audience for our research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/seminar-7/


Description	Presentation on Health implications of multisensory / visual food presentations
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Talk with discussions afterwards and plans for further collaboration in health-related projects Five representatives of companies asked whether they could to be in touch to talk about further research collaborations
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Presenter at mind@osage, a public conversation about the human mind
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	I was invited to organise the first of a series of public conversations or 'salons' at a progressive art gallery, Osage, in Kwun tong, Hong Kong. The even was called mind@osage and the topic of conversation and debate was the nature of the mind.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020


Description	Principal Lecture 59th International Youth Science Forum, Imperial College, London
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	I was invited to give a talk about perception, with demonstrations, to the large audience of students from around the world at the 59th International Youth Science Forum.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Public Conversations about mental health with Ruby Wax.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	C Blakemore and the comedian Ruby Wax took part in three public "conversations" about mental health, two in London, one in Oxford. These were ticketed public events, and were completely sold out.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Public Conversations with Terry Waite for European Year of the Brain
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Colin Blakemore and Terry Waite (survivor of 4-year kidnap and detention in Lebanon) have performed three Public Conversations about emotion, memory and resilience in London, Aston, Edinburgh. These events were ticketed and were all sold out. This was done voluntarily as part of the activities for the European Year of the Brain.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Public Event, Food, the Brain and Us, Milan Triennale Museum
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Hosted a series of short talks and practical tasting experiments at the Triennale Design Museum, Milan to coincide with the opening of an exhibition on Taste (Gusto). The event was sold out and drew over 200 participants. Participants were interested in the event asking questions and discussing the experiences with the event organisers after the activities. This event was organized by AHRC Science in Culture Theme Leadership Fellow Professor Barry C Smith and involved Rethinking the Senses co-investigators Professor Charles Spence and Dr Ophelia Deroy. Following the workshop, one of the contributors, Caroline Hobkinson a food artist has been invited to exhibit at the Milan Expo 2015. An essay prepared for the Gusto exhibition publication will be republished in the Milan Expo 2015 catalogue reaching new audiences.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.triennale.it/en/calendar/events-calendar-list/3309-il-cibo-il-cervello-e-noi-un-evento-mu...


Description	Public Event, Ignite, Natural History Museum
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Rethinking the Senses hosted a small exhibit to inform visitors about their large grant. There was a lot of interest in the project and information was given out about the public seminar series. Information was distributed to a wider audience about the Rethinking the Senses grant as a result there were increased visits to the website and some people interested in finding out more registered to receive the project newsletter.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.sciculture.ac.uk/project/ahrc-science-in-culture-theme-ignite-film/


Description	Public engagement event at Sensory experimentation. Edinburgh Science Festival, 9th April.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). Sensory experimentation. Edinburgh Science Festival, 9th April.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Public event, Beauty and the Brain, Cheltenham Science Festival
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	Yes
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	The talks, which included a contribution from co-investigator Dr Ophelia Deroy prompted questions from audience members. This event was one of a number organized by the AHRC Science in Culture Theme at the Cheltenham Science festival. It was part of the AHRC's partnership with the Cheltenham festivals.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/science/whats-on/2014/beauty-and-the-brain/


Description	Public lecture at the Glasgow Science Cafe
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	'The Waterfall Illusion', public lecture at the Glasgow Science Cafe, Research Club, Ashton Lane, Glasgow, followed by an experiment to test their reaction to the illusion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://www.facebook.com/researchclubglasgow/posts/732045453579581


Description	Public lecture at the Glasgow Science Festival
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	'Vision, Perception and Illusion', public lecture at the Glasgow Science Festival, 8 June 2015. 240 registered participants attended. After my talk I ran an experiment on the audience investigating their experience of the Waterfall Illusion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/events/sciencefestival/events/adult/headline_325538_en.html


Description	Public performance at the Royal Institution for Speakezee (science communication organisation)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Colin Blakemore is a member of the non-profit organisation, Speakezee, which encourages and facilitate public engagement about research. This event, at the Royal Institution, including a number of presentations about trends in research and in the art of public presentation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	https://www.speakezee.org


Description	Research Excellence Lecture, College of Optometrist
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This lecture preceded the presentation to me of the President's Research Medal, awarded quinquennially by the College of Optometrists. The lecture, held at the Wellcome Collection, was attended by a large audience, consisting of professional optometrists, some patients, representatives of medical charities concerned with visual health, and researchers. There was a long a lively discussion session after the lecture.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018


Description	Research stall at a Glasgow Science Centre Lates Event, Glasgow Science Centre.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Glasgow Science Centre Lates, 5 May 2017 Once a month, the Glasgow Science Centre hosts an exciting series of adult-only late-night science events. In May, 2017 the evening focused on Sensation and researchers from the CSPE were invited to host an interactive stall to engage and trick the senses of the public. CSPE Co-ordinator: Dr Jennifer Corns and Professor Fiona Macpherson CSPE Researchers: Dr. Derek Brown, Abraham Sapién Córdoba, Professor Fiona Macpherson, Dr. Neil McDonnell Interactive exhibits Items on display included: 'Reverspective' 3D images with apparently move in unusual ways relative to observers 'Mirascope' 3D optical illusion of an object 'Hyperscope' that increases 3D depth perception McGurk effect audiovisual illusion Hollow mask illusion Animated transparencies causing motion illusions Spinning motion aftereffect disc Ambiguous sweets that are both nice and nasty Jelly beans that you taste with your nose Nice and nasty sweets
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/engagement/science-centre-...


Description	Research stall at the Glasgow Science Festival, Kelvin Gallery, Huntarian Museum, Glasgow
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Interactive exhibits - Items on display that the team demonstrated and discussed with people included: 'Reverspective' 3D images with apparently move in unusual ways relative to observers 'Mirascope' 3D optical illusion of an object 'Hyperscope' that increases 3D depth perception McGurk effect audiovisual illusion Hollow mask illusion Animated transparencies causing motion illusions Spinning motion aftereffect disc Ambiguous sweets that are both nice and nasty Jelly beans that you taste with your nose Nice and nasty sweets
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Rethinking the Senses Spring School
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Our everyday understanding of perception is that we see, touch, smell, taste, and hear. Until recently, philosophers and scientists alike have accepted this framework and studied each of the senses in isolation. Psychology and cognitive neuroscience challenge this understanding of sensory perception by indicating that multisensory interactions are the rule rather than the exception. The Spring School will review the latest research on multisensory perception carried out in philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, focusing on the following central themes: Modes and mechanisms of multi sensory interaction; Object perception in & across the senses; Attention, consciousness and top-down processes in multisensory perception; Development of multisensory capabilities; the hidden senses. In order to deliver the state-of-the-art research in these fields, we have invited leading researchers from the fields of experimental and developmental psychology, cognitive neuroscience and philosophy to present their current research on these topics. Speakers include Colin Blakemore (School of Advanced Study, University of London); Andy Bremner (Goldsmiths); Ophelia Deroy (LMU and Centre for the Study of the Senses, University of London); Matthew Longo (Birkbeck); Christophe Lopez (CNRS, Marseille); Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow); Matthew Nudds (Warwick); Brigitte Röder (Hamburg); Barry C. Smith (School of Advanced Study, University of London); Salvador Soto-Faraco (Pompeu-Fabra); Charles Spence (Oxford); Hong Yu Wong (Tübingen); Wayne Wu (Carnegie Mellon); Sharon Zmigrod (Leiden).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/research/researchcentres/wma/current/rethinkingthesens...


Description	Scentsory Science at Central St Martins
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Colin Blakemore was in conversation with Jenny Tillotson, Reader in Sensory Fashion at Central Saint Martins, chaired by Marina Wallace (who is a member of the Advisory Board of the Rethinking the Senses project). Jenny Tillotson is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, an Associate of the British Society of Perfumery, a STEM Ambassador and a Churchill Fellow. She directs the Scentsory Design® initiative, focusing on sensory fashion, merging perfumery with emerging technologies to offer social and therapeutic value in a desirable context. By combining biology with wearable technologies, clothing and jewelry emit evidence-based scents to reduce anxiety via a discreet wearable biofeedback loop when stress levels reach a pre-set threshold. A localised scent cloud is released in response to a biometric stimulus and tailored to fit specific moods., The conversation was about the scientific basis of this area of design, and about many possible applications of multisensory experience to fashion design. There was a lively discussion with the audience, which included many art students and teachers from a variety of disciplines, as well as members of the general public. We have continued our collaboration with Central Saint Martins, which organised this event, and we remain in contact with Jenny Tillotson.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/in-conversation/


Description	Science Oxford Cheesemas event
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Many questions Request for consultancy work with design company Request for collaboration from eating disorders group
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.scienceoxford.com/


Description	Scientific Sense podcast
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	I was interviewed by Gill Eapen for the popular podcast, Scientific Sense, which he presents. https://www.scientificsense.com I talked about recent research, much of it related to work done for the AHRC grant, Rethinking the Senses.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://podcast.scientificsense.net/S2129


Description	Series of talks at Chicago Ideas week on Gastrophysics and Food design & Innovation
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	"talks sparked questions and discussion afterwards. " Plus follow-up contact from those working in industry.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	https://www.chicagoideas.com/


Description	Simner talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Talk generated fruitful discussion Widened understanding of subject to audience
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/seminar-4/


Description	Speaker, Rethinking the Senses, UNITING THE PHILOSPHY AND NEUROSCIENCE OF PERCEPTION: Flavour Perception, Oxford University, 04.04.16
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Talk to psychologists, philosophers and neuroscientists about the multisensory perception of flavour.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.region.europe/21510


Description	Special Collections event
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Co-organised an event in Special Collections in the University of Glasgow Library for the public as part of the Understanding the Senses: Past and Present project. It consisted of a room displaying visual, audio and cross-modal illusions, illustrating the work of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience and a display of some of the library's collection of manuscripts and early printed books relating to the history of the senses together with a presentation on the material by Lynn Verschuren.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/outreach/understanding-the-...


Description	Spence talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Generated discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/news-and-events/ppn-seminar...


Description	Spence, C. (2013). Multisensory flavour perception. Experimental Food Society Spectacular.8-9th November, London.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	extensive requests from restaurants and publishers in working together Extensive press coverage of lab's activities
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013


Description	Spence, C. (2014). "Sound bites": When and why what we hear changes what we taste. The Science of Taste: An Interdisciplinary Symposium. August 11-12th Copenhagen, Denmark.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	questions and discussion Led to invites at a number of other international gastronomy shows Also led to several interviews broadcast on Danish Radio
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Spence, C. (2014). Experience and multisensory design. Superfeelers Seminar, The Royal College of Arts, 9th June, London.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Many questions, and plan to put in interdisciplinary research grant
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Spence, C. (2014). GOLA: Art and science of taste. Triennale de Milano. Milan, 3rd March, Milan.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	extensive discussion, and interactive tasting sessions A couple of interviews on Italian national Radio
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Spence, C. (2014). How do your senses interact and where does vision fit in? Keynote presentation given at 100% Optical. 16th February, London.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	extensive questions and requests for further research Some media opportunities
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Spence, C. (2014). Multisensory contributions to pleasure and pain. Tedx - Unexpected connections. 28th March, Hasselt.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	TedX talk extensive questions and further discussion publicity for lab work
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Spence, C. (2014). Neuroscience-inspired multisensory design. 100% Design. London, 17th September.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Interactive talk with many design professionals. Lots of questions Talk has led to invites to give 2 workshops in Denmark to design professionals
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.100percentdesign.co.uk/


Description	Spence, C. (2014). Neuroscience-inspired multisensory design. The UK Semiochemistry network: Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, British Workshop XXII. Cambridge, 22-23 July.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Extensive questions, and follow-up invites to give keynotes and public outreach talks Extensive questions, and follow-up invites to give keynotes and public outreach talks This led to public invite City University and to keynote invite to ACE 2014
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Spence, C. (2014). On the future of food: Neuroscience-inspired multisensory design. Food Vision 2014, 31st March - 2nd April. Cannes France.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Extensive questions Sparked invites to keynote at a number of other industry food and drink conferences
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.foodnavigator.com/Events/Food-Vision-2014


Description	Spence, C. (2014). Synaesthesia and crossmodal correspondences: Similarities and differences. Synaesthesia conference 28 February-1st March. Hamburg Germany.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	extensive discussion invitation to submit paper to special issue
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Spence, C. (2014). Taste and value: What makes a 'good' bottle of wine. Invited presentation at Wine Vision 2014. 17-19th November, London.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	requests for consultation industry interest in lab research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://winevision.com/


Description	Spence, C. (2014). The music of taste: Online and in the real-world. Sensibus Festival, Seinajoki, Finland, 13-14th March.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Extensive discussion, and interactive dinner and wine tasting with members of public A couple of public facing press articles
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Spence, C. (2014). The science of taste: The perfect meal. Invited session for patrons. The Smith Centre, Science Museum London, 22 September.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Many questions and we ran interactive demos with audience after talk We are currently setting up to run a part of Crave Exhibition at Science Museum
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Spence, C. (2015). Gastrophysics: The new science of the table. Workshop hosted at the 0th Alchemist's Flavour Festival. May 18-20th, Athens, Greece.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). Gastrophysics: The new science of the table. Workshop hosted at the 0th Alchemist's Flavour Festival. May 18-20th, Athens, Greece.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Spence, C. (2015). On 'The Perfect Meal'. A curated experimental multisensory dinner at Westminster Kingsway College. 28th April, London.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). On 'The Perfect Meal'. A curated experimental multisensory dinner at Westminster Kingsway College. 28th April, London.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Spence, C. (2015). Sound:Sense. Conversation at ArtScience Museum, Singapore, 22nd August.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). Sound:Sense. Conversation at ArtScience Museum, Singapore, 22nd August.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Spence, C. (2015). The perfect meal. Aye Write festival. Glasgow, 20th April.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). The perfect meal. Aye Write festival. Glasgow, 20th April.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Spence, C. (2016). Your brain on flavour: Just how worried should we be by the rise of gastroporn? Brainy Bar, London, 22nd February.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2016). Your brain on flavour: Just how worried should we be by the rise of gastroporn? Brainy Bar, London, 22nd February.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Spence, C., & Smith, B. (2014). Beyond taste: Drinking with all your senses. Open tutored tasting and presentation at Wine Vision 2014. 17-19th November, London.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Press coverage in trade magazines Requests for follow-up events
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://winevision.com/


Description	Spence, C., Deroy, O., & Spence, C. (2014). Eating with our eyes: Using the mind to trick the stomach into healthy eating. Invited presentation and cookery demonstration at Food Vision 2014. 18-20th November, London.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	extensive requests for information we also ran 4 experimental booths to introduce food companies to our methods Trade press coverage
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.foodnavigator.com/Events/Food-Vision-2014


Description	Spence, C., Michel, C., & Lloyd, C. (2014). Pairing music and food. Institute of Food Science & Technology Jubilee Conference, 14-15th May, London.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Extensive questions Invitation to present similar interactive culinary/musical art plus sensory science event at Food Matters Live in EdeXel November
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://ifst2.pseltd.com/upcoming_events/ifstjubileeconferencefantasticfutureoffood/


Description	Summerschool Spence, C. (2015). Crossmodal correspondences. Summer School on the topic of MultiSensory Integration and Synesthesia, held 15-25 June, Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam. 23rd June.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). Crossmodal correspondences. Summer School on the topic of MultiSensory Integration and Synesthesia, held 15-25 June, Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam. 23rd June.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Talk Summer school on Embodied Social Cognition, Aegina, Greece
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Talk presented as part of a week-long summer school ; sparked questions and discussion afterwards ; several students kept in touch afterwards
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Talk at literary conference on mutlisensory flavour
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). Eating with all the senses. Invited presentation at Words by the water festival. Keswick, 6-15th March.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Talk food festival Denmark
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). Gastrophysics: The perfect meal. Kokkescenen, Food Fesitival Aarhus. September 5th. Aarhus Denmark.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Talk for chefs and food industry professionals
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). The perfect meal. Invited presentation given at Diálogos de cocina (9-10th March). San Sebastian, Spain.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Talk to Eye Surgeons at King's College Hospital, London
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	'Philosophy of Hallucination and Perception, talk to Eye Surgeons at King's College Hospital, London
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Talk to art students, Central St Martins
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Participants in your research and patient groups
Results and Impact	Talk spared questions and discussion afterwards Contact were maintained with some students
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Talk with chef at Literary Festival
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Spence, C., & Caines, M. (2015). The perfect meal: In conversation with Michael Caines. Chagford Literary Festival. Chagford, 15th March.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	TedX talk London on Entomophagy
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Spence, C. (2015). Entomophagy. TedX City University, London 14th March.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	The Hidden Senses
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Helped to run "The Hidden Senses: the secrets of taste and smell" a day of talks, activities, experiments, demonstrations, and exhibitions for the public to challenge their understanding of the senses of taste and smell, involving philosophers, psychologists, perfumiers, neuroscientists, artists, chefs, and technologists at the Dana Centre, Science Museum, London. The event showcased the work of the Rethinking the Senses project and was part of the national AHRC Being Human Festival of the Humanities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/the-hidden-senses-the-secrets-of-taste-and-smell


Description	The Illusions Index
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	The Illusions Index is a fully searchable, interactive curated collection of illusions. The illusions are categorised into different types, allowing you to search for, and compare, illusions that fall under one or more type. Staff and students at the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience have researched each illusion to provide detailed information about what it teaches us about the philosophy and psychology of perception. The Illusions Index is an open-access resource, intended for use both by the general public and by researchers in the philosophy and psychology of perception, and beyond. The pages for each illusion are stable URLs, so researchers can easily cite illusions in scholarly work by referring to those URLs. The Index is funded by the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience, the School of Humanities, and the College of Arts at the University of Glasgow, and by donations from you. All we ask is that you cite the articles in The Illusions Index using the author and citation information indicated beside each article, and conform to the Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC_SA 4.0). The Illusions Index was conceived of by Professor Fiona Macpherson, and designed and developed together with Dr Keith Wilson and Mucky Puddle.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://www.illusionsindex.org


Description	The science of taste: The perfect meal.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This was an Invited session for patrons of applied research, held at The Smith Centre, Science Museum London. Much discussion and likely interaction with business. Interaction with business.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Timandra Harkeness interview
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Interviewed by Timandra Harkeness for a Blakeway Production programme for Radio 4 on sensory substitution and augmentation, to be broadcast in 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Times Cheltenham Science Festival
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	Yes
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	talked spared questions and discussion afterwards with the audience and the other speakers Contacted by journalists and MA students afterwards
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/science/whats-on/2014/beauty-and-the-brain/


Description	Tutored tasting on senses Cannes
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Spence, C., & Smith, B. (2015). Wine tasting with all the senses. Cannes, 17-19th March
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Vatakis talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Generated discussion Informed own thinking of research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/seminar-3/


Description	Warwick Rethinking the Senses Seminar: Metaperception and the senses
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Seminar at University of Warwick by Jérôme Dokic (Institut Jean-Nicod) titled 'Metaperception and the senses': Our sensory experiences enable us to form warranted judgments about the sensible world, where the contents of the latter are inherited from the contents of the former. They also enable us to form more sophisticated judgments about some of their non-semantic properties: that they are occurring, that they are cases of vision (as opposed to audition, etc.), that they are cases of faint vision (as opposed to clear or optimal vision), etc. The latter judgments can be formed thanks to the exercises of metaperceptual abilities, some of which being specific to the sensory modality at stake. In this presentation, I enquire into the nature of these abilities, and argue that their outputs are not introspective experiences (quasi-perceptions of non-semantic properties of our experiences), but are best conceived as instances of practical knowledge. In a nutshell, I know that I see (rather than hear, etc.) the world because I know how to improve my visual relation to the world.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/research/researchcentres/wma/current/rethinkingthesense...


Description	Website and Social Media
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	I run an illusions website that receives around 300 hits per month.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	Pre-2006,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/illusions/


Description	Why We Should Count Balance As One of the Senses
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Interviewed by Jeff Gailus for an article on "Why We Should Count Balance As One of the Senses" for Nautilus science magazine, published 3 March 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://nautil.us/blog/we-should-count-balance-as-one-of-the-senses


Description	Wilson & Macpherson, Glasgow Exploration 2016
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Organised an interactive research station at Glasgow Explorathon, marking European Researchers' Night 2016. Our research stand demonstrated a variety of perceptual illusions and activities based around the themes of multisensory perception, illusions and the senses, and which relate to the Rethinking the Senses project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://gla.ac.uk/cspe/outreach/explorathon-2016/


Description	Wilson & Macpherson, Glasgow Science Festival 2016
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Organised a series of talks on the philosophy and psychology of illusions at the annual Glasgow Science Festival, plus an interactive research station including hands-on activities which received many hundreds of visitors. Feedback from the event was extremely positive and many attendees were interested to hear about aspects of our research and the principles behind various perceptual illusions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://gla.ac.uk/cspe/outreach/glasgow-science-festival-2016/


Description	Wilson & Macpherson, Objects of Research
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Keith Wilson and Fiona Macpherson contributed an exhibit to the 'Objects of Research' event at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow. This consisted in an 'impossible' or paradoxical figure constructed out of Lego to recreate a well-known visual illusion known as the Penrose Triangle. Further information and illustrations were provided to explain the significance of the object to museum visitors, along with instructions on how to achieve the illusory effect.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/news/headline_429114_en.html


Description	Wilson Antwerp talk - Is There an Auditory Field?
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Talk at the Perceiving at a Distance Conference, University of Antwerp on whether there is an auditory field analogous to the visual field. 30 people in attendance, resulting in productive discussion and networking opportunities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	Wilson ECMN talk - Is There an Auditory Field?
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Talk at the Early Career Mind Network Research Forum, University of Glasgow on whether there is an auditory field analogous to the visual field. 15 people attended, resulting in productive discussion and suggestions for further research directions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	https://earlycareermindnetwork.squarespace.com/glasgow/2016/5/5/ecmn-research-forum-glasgow-2016


Description	Wilson ESPP talk - Is There an Auditory Field?
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Talk at the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2016 Conference, University of St Andrews, on whether there is an auditory field analogous to the visual field. 30 people in attendance, resulting in productive discussion and requests for further information.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://espp16.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/programme/


Description	Wilson, AHRC GSF blog
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Invited blog post reporting on the Rethinking the Senses project's participation in Glasgow Science Festival 2015
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.sciculture.ac.uk/2015/06/22/engaging-senses-at-the-glasgow-science-festival/


Description	Wilson, CIN Tübingen talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented paper at a Workshop on Perception and Reasoning at the University of Tübingen's Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) entitled 'Do Visual Experiences Have Contents? Siegel's Argument from Appearing'. There was much discussion amongst workshop participants and Susanna Siegel, who also gave a response to the paper, and others wrote to me afterwards requesting further information.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.cin.uni-tuebingen.de/news-events/browse-all-events/detail/view/337/page/1/cin-workshops-g...


Description	Wilson, Edinburgh PPIG Seminar
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	15 academics and students attended this interdisciplinary research group meeting, generating useful questions and discussions. The session was also recorded for access to future University of Edinburgh students, as well as being published on YouTube (link below).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://youtu.be/9EdUQq2ZvEo


Description	Wilson, Glasgow Senior Seminar talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Gave a presentation entitled 'Phenomenal Looks, Phenomenal Content' at the University of Glasgow's Philosophy Senior Seminar, which prompted lively questions and discussions, as well as follow-up emails from, and discussions with, colleagues requesting further information.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Wilson, Introduction to The Matrix
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	Gave an introduction to an outdoor screening of the film The Matrix (approx. 200 people), focusing upon the philosophical issues that it raises about perception, knowledge and the nature of reality. This resulted in a short promotional video and the offer of further participation and involvement in future such events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://youtu.be/jEa6mIN0Ya0


Description	Wilson, Stirling Visiting Speaker Seminar
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	The talk generated discussion and questions on the research that was presented. Email exchanges with several attendees concerning the contents of the talk.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.stir.ac.uk/arts-humanities/about/law-philosophy/philosophy/


Description	Wilson, Sussex COGS talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presented a paper on 'Individuating the Senses of Taste and Smell' at the University of Sussex's interdisciplinary Cognitive Science (COGS) Research Seminar. This prompted useful questions and discussion, as well as establishing contact with another researcher (Marianna Obrist) who is working this area and will give talks at future Rethinking the Senses events in Oxford and Glasgow.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Wilson, Thought & Sense workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Gave a paper entitled 'Is Perceptual Experience Representational? Travis's Argument from Looks' at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN), University of Oslo, Thought and Sense project kickoff workshop. This resulted in useful exchanges with other workshop attendees, several of whom reported a change in their views on the topic of the presentation as a result.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.hf.uio.no/csmn/english/research/news-and-events/events/thought-and-sense-kickoff-workshop...


Description	Wilson, Warwick ECMN Pilot Meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presented a paper on 'The Two Senses of Smell' at the Early Career Mind Network (ECMN) Pilot Meeting, University of Warwick, involving around 15 early career philosophers of mind. This prompted questions and discussions, and two more future such meetings are planned at the Universities of Glasgow and Cambridge, respectively.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://sites.google.com/site/alisamandrigin/home/early-career-mind-network


Description	Workshop - individuation of the senses
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Generated discussions and allowed for development of research Collaborations with colleagues (new and old) continued to develop.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/workshop-individuation-of-the-senses/


Description	Workshop - searching for a taxonomy
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	The day informed good discussion on the subject A follow up workshop has been scheduled for 2015
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/workshop-searching-for-a-taxonomy/


Description	Zeman talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Generated discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/news-and-events/ppn-seminar...


Description	research day
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	The talks generated good discussion with collaborators. Further areas for research identified.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/research-day-2014/


Description	society talk - Universal Synaesthesia
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	This talk generated discussions around the subject area. There was interest in the topic and this has continued our collaboration with Charles Michel.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/universal-synaesthesia/


Description	workshop - ESPP
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Fruitful discussions through the duration of the workshop. Allowed for development of future research and collaborations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/espp-2014-hosted-symposium/


Description	workshop - Two Senses of Smell
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Discussions after stimulated future research Research from this fed into a public launch of the charity Fifth Sense
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.thesenses.ac.uk/events/event/another-event/


Description	workshop: inaugural
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	This served to introduce people to the themes of the project, creating fruitful discussions that were taken on board. This broadened the audience, both academic and public, to the research project. It has encouraged new collaborations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

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