Luis M. Martínez

Director of the Human Cognition Program and the Visual Analogies Laboratory at the Institute of Neurosciences of Alicante, a joint centre of the Miguel Hernández University and the Spanish National Research Council. Previously, he trained at the Rockefeller University in New York, under Torsten N. Wiesel, Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1981. In his work he uses a markedly multidisciplinary approach, including cognitive and computational neuroscience, archaeology, philosophy, social sciences, magic and art. His main interest is to understand how memory, reasoning, intuition and social context condition our behaviour and perception of reality. He is the author of numerous scientific articles, essays and opinion columns, as well as co-author of two books, with Jordi Camí, on neuroscience and human cognition, including The Illusionist Brain (Princeton University Press). His work is funded by the most prestigious international institutions, such as the European Research Council (ERC) and the Human Frontiers Science Project Organization (HFSP), and has been reviewed in numerous media oulets, including several television documentaries, both in Spain and abroad.