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Kinda Conversations: Sensory Diversity

Season 2, Ep. 6

In this special series, recorded live at Soho House 180 the Strand, we feature some of the leading women at the intersection of neuroscience and the arts. In this episode, we explore sensory diversity - the idea that each of our own perceptions of the world are uniquely shaped by the way our individual senses process them.


Joined by experts Julia Simner, professor of neuropsychology at the University of Sussex, and Jennifer Crook, artistic director of Collective Act, producers of Dreamachine, we explore the different ways each individual can experience our sensory worlds around us.

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