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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(19,19,21)"><span style="font-kerning:none">the 33rd Kanizsa Lecture will take place at the University of Trieste, October 31, 2025.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(19,19,21)"><span style="font-kerning:none">This year the Kanizsa Lecture will be delivered by prof. Vebjørn Ekroll (Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen) on Friday 31 October, starting at 4.00 pm.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(19,19,21)"><span style="font-kerning:none">The 33rd Kanizsa Lecture</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(19,19,21)"><span style="font-kerning:none">The idea that academic psychology has much to gain by taking a keener interest in what magicians do and why it works has gained considerable traction in recent years. In the first part of this lecture, I will argue that our scientific understanding of a magic trick is incomplete unless we can explain, by appealing to known psychological mechanisms, why it reliably evokes an illusory experience of impossibility. By this criterion, the art of magic is replete with tricks and phenomena which pose important and interesting challenges for theories of perception and cognition. Drawing on examples from my joint work with fellow perception researchers, I aim to illustrate how a focus on magic can not only advance basic research on perception and cognition but also lead to surprising perspectives in the apparently unrelated applied domain of road safety. In the second part of this lecture, I will discuss some of the magic inherent in Kanizsa’s seminal observations on the phenomenology of vision. In particular, I will focus on the seemingly paradoxical nature of the phenomenon he called phenomenal expansion by amodal completion and its implications for theories of perception.</span></p>
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