Discover your brain at planète santé
What does it feel like to recover from brain damage? Have you ever tricked your senses into sensing one thing but experiencing something entirely different? Walk inside a huge inflatable brain and play with optical illusions. These are some of the experiments that you can try at Brain Days, De l'oeil au cerveau and Au delà du réel, three EPFL stands at planète santé, open to the general public from today November 24th until Sunday the 27th at the SwissTech Convention Center. Experience what it's like to learn how to draw again after damage to the brain. Try an experiment where you trick your mind into feeling as though your hand is being caressed by a feather. Have a taste test, or smell a series of strange odors, and learn how your brain interprets and learns these signals. Walk into a giant inflatable brain and learn about how the brain works, what causes a migraine and possible treatments. These are some of the things that you can learn at Brain Days, one of EPFL's educational stands , about your own brain and its incredible ability to adapt.
