The brain is just like a muscle in the body, so it needs a lot of exercise to keep performing at its peak. This three-and–a-half-pound ball of tissue is essential because it enables people to focus and make decisions and it creates unique individuals. This month on National Geographic Channel (NGC), Brain Games gives viewers a workout by filling each episode with interactive experiments that are designed to stimulate and reveal the inner workings of the mind.
People naturally assume that life is exactly how they see it through their own eyes, but that is not always the case. This fact can be illustrated through optical illusions. When people look at and experience such visual trickery, they think the brain is being fooled and that it must be misfiring somehow. As a matter of fact, the opposite is true. The brain is filling in the parts that people don't see and completing the images on a three-dimensional level. In Brain Games: Illusion Confusion, hosts Jason Silva and Apollo Robbins put viewers' minds to the test with an intricate set of illusions to show how easy it is to manipulate11 the brain.
Some people say that the sexes are miles away in their thinking, which is why the saying men are from Mars and women are from Venus came about. In Brain Games: Battle of the Sexes, see how the genetic flip of a coin at birth plays a huge role in everyday life. Couples go head-to-head and brain-to-brain on a series of experiments so that viewers can find out which gender is wired better for what tasks. This month, cultivate your intelligence with NGC's Brain Games. |
