Edinburgh International Science Festival

  • Janice Barr (Presenter)

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Schools engagement

Description

Edinburgh Neuroscience College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. “Sense and Nonsense” How we experience the world

• The aim was to explain the senses and how we experience the world around us. • Lots of “hands on” demonstrations, model brains (must be quicker at putting them back together again before the next child takes it apart), Braille activity, touch illusions, and a “live” synesthesia experiment. Demonstrators encouraged people to try out the experiments. While they were doing this we were explaining (with the help of posters and models) how the brain “sorts” information.
Period25 Mar 2008
Event typeConference
LocationEdinburgh, United KingdomShow on map