Editing Semir Zeki (section)

==Public engagement==

He has lectured widely across the world, giving over 60 named lectures, including the Ferrier Lecture (Royal Society 1995); The Philip Bard Lecture ([[Johns Hopkins University]], 1992); The Woodhull Lecture (Royal Institution, London, 1995); The Humphry Davy Lecture (Académie des Sciences, Paris, 1996); The Grass Foundation Forbes Lectures (Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA 1997; Carl Gustave Bernhard Lecture ([[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences|Royal Swedish Academy of Science]], Stockholm, 1996; and the Tizard Lecture (Westminster School, London, 2004) among others.

He has published three books, ''A Vision of the Brain'' (Blackwell, Oxford 1993 – translated into Japanese and Spanish), ''Inner Vision: an exploration of art and the brain'' (OUP, 1999); ''Splendors and Miseries of the Brain'' (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford 2009) and co-authored ''La Quête de l'essentiel'', Les Belles Lettres, Archimbaud, Paris, 1995 (with Balthus, Count Klossowski  de Rola) and ''La bella e la bestia'', 2011, Laterza, Italy (with Ludovica Lumer).

He held an exhibition of his own art work at the Pecci Museum of Contemporary Art in Milan in 2011 (''Bianco su bianco: oltre Malevich'').