Call for Papers - conference on visual illusions

[Adrian C. Brock]

Visual Illusions – Past, Present and Future Use

Centre for Medical Humanities, University of Leicester

7th June 2013

 

This conference will examine the medical, psychological, historical and religious use of visual illusions, and their influence on the arts and society. Recent findings that visual illusions can alter brain function and pain have led to insights of how they have been used – whether consciously or not – in arts and religion. Examples of how illusions can benefit in further areas are welcomed for this conference. We also welcome proposals for papers which, through general surveys or particular research of individuals or groups, address topics such as

 

• Visual illusions in medical history and in the literature

 

• Neuroscientific insights into the working mechanism of visual illusions

 

• Insights within the therapeutic use of mirror visual feedback

 

• Visual illusions perceived as miracles and the impact on society

 

• The variance in individual susceptibility to illusions from a psychological point of view

 

• Influence of memory on the interpretation of illusion

 

• Cultural impact on perception of illusion in the arts

 

• Real mirror illusion versus virtual reality – the difference in neural processing

 

These topics are for guidance only and we will consider any suggestions that fall within this broad area of visual illusions. Papers relevant to the conference agenda are welcome. These should be sent by the 10th May 2013 preferably to both organisers Professor Steven King (sak28@le.ac.uk) and Annegret Hagenberg (ah413@le.ac.uk). It is our intention with the consent of those contributing such papers to annex these or abstracts thereof to a published report of the conference.