Lecture by neuroscientist Daniel Glaser (United Kingdom).
4 September, 16:00
“What you see is driven as much by your expectations of what you’re going to see – your knowledge, your experience, your hypotheses, if you like – as it is by what is in the eye. The critical point here is that perception is driven by what you think as well as by what you see. And I think that already begins to loosen the idea that what’s going on in seeing is that there are these objects in the world, and we’re making a representation of them in our heads. Rather, we have a worldview, and we’re projecting that out onto the world that we see.”
/Daniel Glaser/
Daniel Glaser is a British neuroscientist whose research explores how our knowledge, experience and expectations shape perception. For more than twenty years, he has worked at the intersection of neuroscience, art and culture. He founded Science Gallery London, led science programmes at Wellcome Trust and The Royal Institution, and currently develops public programmes at Google DeepMind. Daniel Glaser is a BBC presenter, author of The Guardian column A Neuroscientist Explains, and the first scientist to have been invited to serve on the jury of the prestigious Booker Prize.
The exhibition “HOW ARE YOU TODAY? EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE”, dedicated to physician Ilze Aizsilniece (1966–2025), brings together works by 28 Latvian artists and invites visitors to explore emotions through the perspectives of art, science, medicine and personal experience.
The exhibition’s public programme is supported by the Dr Ilze Aizsilniece Foundation.
The lecture will be held in English and admission is free.
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