The Incredible Perception Lab Inside Your Head
When you think about studying the brain, you might imagine fancy technology like electronics, and lasers. But there’s a state-of-the-art perception lab inside you that you use all the time without thinking. While a chess app may beat you at chess, the best computers are still nowhere close to how well you see, hear, touch, smell and taste. Your brain’s perception lab is always ready to collaborate with you and perform experiments for you. SP Arun’s talk took us on a tour of simple experiments that you can try out to explore the mysteries of sensation and perception.
About the Neuroscientist
SP Arun trained as an electrical engineer, read too much science fiction for his own good and became a neuroscientist. He is fascinated by how the brain transforms sensation into perception, and studies this in his lab at the Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
