Cool Brain Tricks Archives - BrainHQ from Posit Science https://www.brainhq.com/blog/category/cool-brain-tricks/ Wed, 23 Aug 2023 18:52:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 TED Talk: Daniel Kish on Learning to "See" Using Echolocation https://www.brainhq.com/blog/ted-talk-daniel-kish-on-learning-to-see-using-echolocation/ Wed, 03 Jun 2015 15:34:06 +0000 https://blog.brainhq.com/?p=5497 When you hear the word “echolocation” you probably think of bats. After all, we use the phrase “blind as a bat” and we know that bats use echolocation–bouncing sounds off of hard surfaces–to navigate their space effectively, despite poor eyesight. But did you know that humans are capable of this too? Daniel Kish, who became…

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]]> Video: How Fast and Slow Thinking Trick Your Brain https://www.brainhq.com/blog/video-how-fast-and-slow-thinking-trick-your-brain/ Wed, 12 Nov 2014 23:23:09 +0000 http://dev-brainhq-blog.pantheonsite.io/?p=6277 By now, you probably know that it’s not too difficult to trick the brain, but do you know why your brain falls for illusions? In this great ASAP Science video, we learn about fast and slow thinking, and how these 2 different brain systems affect our perception and let our brains be fooled. (If you want to…

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]]> 7 Common Brain Myths – Busted! https://www.brainhq.com/blog/7-common-brain-myths-busted-video/ Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:26:55 +0000 http://dev-brainhq-blog.pantheonsite.io/?p=6266 We love the ASAP Science videos and have posted a few here before. This is another great one, featuring 7 common brain myths – and explaining why they aren’t true, and what the real facts are! Do alcohol and drugs really kill brain cells? Are people “left-brained” or “right-brained”? Do we have five senses, or more? And…

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]]> 5 Common Mistakes Your Brain Makes Every Day https://www.brainhq.com/blog/5-common-mistakes-your-brain-makes-every-day/ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 10:49:26 +0000 http://blog.positscience.com/?p=4727 Our brains are pretty amazing, but they can make a lot of mistakes that we are not even aware of. Sometimes these may have negative long-term consequences, but often they just mean a moment of misunderstanding or confusion. Here are 5 common mistakes your brain makes every day! We trust our memories, even though they…

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