Call for Papers: Visual Illusions - Past, Present and Future Use
Call for Papers: Visual Illusions - Past, Present and Future Use
Conference at the Centre for Medical Humanities
University of Leicester, United Kingdom 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.