Event overview
Goldsmiths Psychology is delighted to welcome Dr Daniel Yon, Birkbeck, University of London, to present his research on "How the Brain Invents Your Reality".
This is an in person event so please join us on campus in PSH LG01 if you can. There is also a teams link to connect online.
How does your brain decide what it’s seeing, from the physical world to other people? For decades, scientists have tried to understand how our brains work, not realising that the answer lies much closer to home than it seems.
The latest research in neuroscience and psychology suggests that the brain is doing the same thing that the scientists are: using past experiences to build theories of how the world works, and using these models to predict and make sense of it. Through this process, your brain constructs the reality that you live in.
In his new book, Dr Daniel Yon takes the research one step further, uncovering how your brain colours your perception of the world, the judgements you make about other people and the beliefs you form about yourself. With transformative applications for how we engage with other communities and approach mental illness, Daniel will be presenting this new way of thinking about the mind and brain, and discussing how the models in our heads control what we perceive and believe, and how the paradigms in our minds can shift.
Daniel Yon is an experimental psychologist, cognitive neuroscientist and director of The Uncertainty Lab at Birkbeck, University of London. He received his PhD in 2018, took up his first academic post at Goldsmiths in 2019 and joined the faculty at Birkbeck in 2021 - where he is now Associate Professor (Reader) in Cognitive Neuroscience. In 2023 he was made a Visiting Fellow of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, and in 2024 elected as a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. In the same year he was awarded the Experimental Psychology Society’s EPS Prize for distinguished, independent and original contributions to experimental psychology. His first book A Trick of The Mind: How The Brain Invents Your Reality was published on 26 June 2025 by Penguin Random House.
Please join us in person if you can. Or click here to join the lecture on Teams.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Oct 2025 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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