1. Radio
 / Modified jan 27, 2011 10:26 p.m.

NOVAscienceNOW

HOW DOES THE BRAIN WORK? Investigate the psychology of magic tricks, magnetic wands that treat depression, artificial intelligence, and more. Wednesday at 8 pm on PBS-HD. by Colleen Greer

Viewers will learn whether the secrets behind the world’s greatest magic tricks are actually wired into the human brain when magicians Penn and Teller and Las Vegas trickster Apollo Robbins team up withneuroscientists to reveal how our brains process visual information.

nova_science_brain_mac617x347 Are the secrets behind the world’s greatest magic tricks actually wired into the human brain? Pictured: Comedy magician Mac King (left) and Neil deGrasse Tyson (right)
PBS

Then, a riveting piece reveals the difficulties of replicating the human brain in machines like IBM’s “Watson,”attempting to mimic the human thought process with software is actually providing new insight into the brain itself.

Experience neuroscientist David Eagleman’s unique brand of “guerilla science,” when he drops people 150 feet into a net to show viewers how the brain constructs reality using the information it takes in through the senses.

Wednesday at 8 pm on PBS-HD.

NOVAscienceNOW

By posting comments, you agree to our
AZPM encourages comments, but comments that contain profanity, unrelated information, threats, libel, defamatory statements, obscenities, pornography or that violate the law are not allowed. Comments that promote commercial products or services are not allowed. Comments in violation of this policy will be removed. Continued posting of comments that violate this policy will result in the commenter being banned from the site.

By submitting your comments, you hereby give AZPM the right to post your comments and potentially use them in any other form of media operated by this institution.
AZPM is a service of the University of Arizona and our broadcast stations are licensed to the Arizona Board of Regents who hold the trademarks for Arizona Public Media and AZPM. We respectfully acknowledge the University of Arizona is on the land and territories of Indigenous peoples.
The University of Arizona