Welcome to Lectures on Tap

Join us for an engaging evening where professors, experts, and storytellers bring their thought-provoking lectures to your favorite bar in the Arts District, Los Angeles! PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

Hosted by the Lectures on Tap team.

🗓️ Date: September 17th, 2025

🕖 Time: 7:30 PM

📚 Lecture: “Sensory Superpowers: The Brain’s Secret Perceptual Powers”

🎤 Speaker: Professor Lawrence Rosenblum

In this revealing romp through the mysteries of human perception, UC psychologist and researcher Lawrence Rosenblum explores the astonishing abilities of our five senses—skills of which most of us are remarkably unaware. Drawing on groundbreaking insights into the brain’s plasticity and integrative powers, including findings from his own research, Rosenblum examines how our brains use subtle information to perceive the world.

You’ll learn about a blind person who can “see” through bat-like echolocation, a Master Sommelier who can identify grape variety and vintage in an obscure wine, and how pheromones can subliminally signal a lover’s compatibility.

To illustrate these implicit perceptual skills, he will take us from baseball fields where blind players swing at beeping balls to pitch-black restaurants where diners experience taste without sight.

Lawrence Rosenblum is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at UC Riverside and author of the book See What I’m Saying: The Extraordinary Powers of Our Five Senses.

Don’t miss this fascinating journey into the hidden powers of perception!

Get a drink, connect, and learn at Lectures on Tap! 🙌

Agenda

7:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

7:55 PM – Host introduction

8:00 PM – Lecture begins

8:45 PM – Audience Q&A

9:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

9:30 PM – Wrap up.