Your Brain: Perception Deception Preview
Preview: Season 50 Episode 9 | 29sVideo has Closed Captions
Neuroscientists discover the tricks and shortcuts the brain takes to help us survive.
Is what you see real? Join neuroscientist Heather Berlin on a quest to understand how your brain shapes your reality, and why you can’t always trust what you perceive. Learn the surprising tricks and shortcuts the brain takes to help us survive.
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Your Brain: Perception Deception Preview
Preview: Season 50 Episode 9 | 29sVideo has Closed Captions
Is what you see real? Join neuroscientist Heather Berlin on a quest to understand how your brain shapes your reality, and why you can’t always trust what you perceive. Learn the surprising tricks and shortcuts the brain takes to help us survive.
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Is what I see, what I hear, what I feel, right?
Your perceptive brain is deceiving you.
- At the very first moment, we are transforming reality.
- [Heather] Ow!
- Pain is a construct.
- We're effectively blind to the world around us.
- [Scientist] The dress.
- [Heather] Blue and black, and white and gold.
Are we a delusion?
- Your sense of who you are is an illusion.
- [Heather] "Your Brain: Perception Deception" on Nova.
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Is the Human Brain Actually Two Minds?
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Severing the connection between the two halves of the brain reveals how the hemispheres function. (5m 17s)
Your Memories Are Not as True as You Think
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It turns out memories have a very shaky foundation. (3m 51s)
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