Visualization Lecture

Eric Mazur, the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University, will give a talk titled "How the Mind Tricks Us: Visualizations and Visual Illusions" at 7 p.m. at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Ave, today (April 23). Professor Mazur is a well-known and extremely popular lecturer who has given invited talks all over the world. His lecture will illuminate the ways in which recent research in neurobiology and cognitive psychology enables people to understand how the mind processes information, in particular, visual information. The knowledge we can gain from these fields has important implications for the presentation of visual information and student learning. See here for more information about Dr. Mazur's work.