About brain games

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A truly mind-blowing experience like no other that is bound to test your brain and how it perceives things.  Brain Games takes you on a journey using interactive games and experiments designed to mess with your mind and reveal the inner-workings of your brain. Delving into topics like focus, fear, persuasion, decision-making and neural fitness, Brain Games turns your mind’s eye inwards for a profoundly entertaining and revealing journey into the three and a half pounds of tissue that makes you...you.

EPISODE GUIDE

• Brain Games

  Next Showing:	Thursday 19 September 2013 at 1:00PM - National Geographic Channel
  Repeats:	Thursday 19 September 2013 at 1:30PM - National Geographic Channel
  	Thursday 19 September 2013 at 8:00PM - National Geographic Channel

• Brain Games: Seeing is Believing
  Seeing is believing, right? Not necessarily. It all depends on your perspective. In this episode of Brain Games, mind-bending illusions will show you the ways in which your visual perceptions can be surprisingly off. Watch as your brain turns beautiful people into scary monsters, and reduces giants to miniatures. We’ll make you question what you see.
• Brain Games: Power of Persuasion

  Next Showing:	Saturday 14 September 2013 at 4:00PM - National Geographic Channel
  Repeats:	Saturday 14 September 2013 at 11:00PM - National Geographic Channel
  	Sunday 15 September 2013 at 2:00AM - National Geographic Channel

• Brain Games: Focus Pocus
  Think your field of vision is really in focus, or that your brain is focusing on everything happening in front of you? Think again. Your peripheral vision is blurrier than a cell phone camera from 1998! In this episode, host Jason Silva—with the help of deception specialist Apollo Robbins and psychologist Brian Scholl, the director of Yale University’s Perception and Cognition Lab—reveals the secrets behind the mysteries of focus and attention.
• Brain Games: Motion Commotion
  In this episode we ask some deceptively simple questions—What really is motion? Is the movement that you see real? Or is the wiring of your brain's motion detectors merely being fooled? We explore the science behind how your brain detects and interprets motion, and you'll see how easily this hard-wiring can be fooled... for better and for worse.

  Next Showing:	Saturday 14 September 2013 at 4:30PM - National Geographic Channel
  Repeats:	Saturday 14 September 2013 at 11:30PM - National Geographic Channel
  	Sunday 15 September 2013 at 2:30AM - National Geographic Channel

• Brain Games: Don't Be Afraid
  Our experts examine the brain’s internal tug of war between fear and rationalization. Whether boarding an airplane or walking down a spooky street at night, we’ll see how dread and anticipation build feelings of fear. Putting our host’s emotions to the test, Apollo Robbins challenges Jason Silva to a game of Russian roulette.

  Next Showing:	Tuesday 17 September 2013 at 3:30PM - National Geographic Channel
  Repeats:	Tuesday 17 September 2013 at 10:30PM - National Geographic Channel
  	Wednesday 18 September 2013 at 1:30AM - National Geographic Channel

• Brain Games: What You Don’t Know

  Next Showing:	Tuesday 17 September 2013 at 3:00PM - National Geographic Channel
  Repeats:	Tuesday 17 September 2013 at 10:00PM - National Geographic Channel
  	Wednesday 18 September 2013 at 1:00AM - National Geographic Channel