This news page will keep you informed of our most recent activities into neuroscience, visual arts, design and music.
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November 2012
October 2012
July 2012
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Beau Lotto at TED Global June 2012
Beau speaks at the annual TED Global conference in Edinburgh and is joined by schoolgirl, Amy OToole.
April 2012
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Anna Starkey at Guardian Science Live
Anna Starkey appears at the Royal Institution in a live edition of the Guardian s Science Weekly podcast.
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Blackawton Bees is second most downloaded paper
Biology Letters announces that our Blackawton Bees paper was its second most downloaded paper during 2011.
March 2012
February 2012
January 2012
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Photo competition winners announced
The winning photographs to be displayed on our forthcoming Vertical Gallery have been selected.
- Public experiments in January
December 2011
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Make a gift for Christmas
The lab is open on Saturday 17th December for visitors to come and customise a scarf or bag for Christmas
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Experiments in progress
During December, we are running six different experiments in our lab, using the public as subjects.
November 2011
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Lottolab at Moorfields Eye Hospital
Lottolab is taking part in the fun at the Children s Eye Centre at Moorfields on Monday 28th November.
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Lottolab officially opened in the Science Museum
The Science Museum has announced the official opening of Lottolab, on the first floor of the museum.
- Lottolab now opens on weekdays
- Lottolab on Facebook and Twitter
- i,scientist news
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Photography competition is launched
On 24th October, Lottolab launched a competition to solicit mobile phone photographs for a brand new public exhibition space, called The Vertical Gallery.
October 2011
- Lates night on 26th October
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First i,maker workshops during half term
From 25th to 27th October Lottolab opened its doors to visitors, who were invited to print their own illusions onto a bag or scarf.
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Lottolab launches Musical Images web app
Imagine being able to upload any image from flickr, or even draw your own image, and then compose music from that image s colours. Now you can, with our Musical Images app for the web.
September 2011
- Lates night is a big success
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Lates night on 28th September
Come and join us for Gaming night at Lottolab, from 6.45pm to 10pm on Wednesday, 28th September.
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New i,scientist project launched
On 20th September, a group of schoolchildren will come to our lab to take part in a series of six workshops.
August 2011
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Lottolab features in BBC2 Horizon, 8th August
Beau Lotto, and lottolab, appear in the first in a new series of Horizon, on BBC 2, entitled ‘Do you see what I see? , to be broadcast on Monday 8th August, at 9pm.
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Colour experiments launched
Lottolab launches a series of experiments to discover the interpersonal differences in colour perception.
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Face experiments launched
Working in collaboration with other experts of perception at UCL, lottolab launches a series of experiments on the perception of faces: who is beautiful and trustworthy… and why.
July 2011
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Live performance at Lottolab
Lottolab stages its first live performances, including the Lottolab and Miranda string octet and the Lottolab and Goves trio, as part of the Science Museum Lates event on 27th July.
June 2011
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Beau Lotto at Cheltenham Science Festival
Beau explores some of the illusions featured in the Horizon programme ‘Is Seeing Believing? in the BBC Science Zone at the Cheltenham Science Festival.
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Mathematics experiments with Dakin lab
Working in collaboration with the Dakin lab at UCL, lottolab runs experiments on whether our ability with numbers is shaped by perception.
April 2011
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New edition of 'Why we see what we do' published
In April 2011 a revised edition of Why we see what we do by Dale Purves and Beau Lotto is being published by Sinauer Associates.
March 2011
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Lates event features the Bee Matrix
Live experiments are conducted on bumblebee vision with young people from Westminster School. The event also includes interactions with the young authors of lottolab s ground-breaking Blackawton Bees paper.
February 2011
December 2010
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Blackawton Bees paper published
On 22 December, Biology Letters publishes Blackawton Bees – the first peer-reviewed scientific paper written by primary schoolchildren to appear in a top journal.
November 2010
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Lottolab's first Lates event
Lottolab presents the Seeing Instruments to the public at its first Lates event in the Science Museum.
October 2010
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Beau Lotto appears on BBC2's Horizon
In an episode of Horizon, entitled Is seeing believing? , Beau Lotto uses illusions to illustrate his theories of perception.
September 2010
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Lottolab moves into the Science Museum
Lottolab moves from UCL to the Science Museum, the first phase of its unique programme of public engagement.
May 2010
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Seeing Myself See at the Wellcome Collection.
A major exhibition, including the Seeing Instruments (for the first time), the Bee Matrix and the Podium at the Wellcome Foundation in London.
July 2009
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Beau Lotto at TED Global, Oxford
Beau Lotto gives a talk, entitled ‘Optical illusions show how we see , at the TED Global conference.
June 2009
May 2009
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Installation at Passing Through exhibition
We will be exhibiting an interactive audiovisual installation at the Passing Through exhibition, 15th–24th May
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