Jim Davies

Cognitive scientist

Jim Davies is a professor at the Institute of Cognitive Science at Carleton University. He is the author of Imagination: The Science of Your Mind’s Greatest Power and Riveted: The Science of Why Jokes Make us Laugh, Movies Make us Cry, and Religion Makes us Feel One with the Universe. He is co-host of the award-winning podcast Minding the Brain. Director of the Science of Imagination Laboratory, he explores processes of visualisation in humans and machines and specialises in artificial intelligence, analogy, problem-solving, and the psychology of art, religion, and creativity. His work has shown how people use visual thinking to solve problems, and how they visualize imagined situations and worlds.

Hallucinations | The many ways we experience things that are not there

Whether you are hearing voices in your head or seeing things that are not there, the many ways we hallucinate mean they are not always a cause for alarm.