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What Color Is Monday?
The question may sound bizarre, but for people with synesthesia, days of the week might have their own colors, shapes, textures — even smells!
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  • 4 min
Why Do Mosquitoes Bite Us?
Figuring out why mosquitoes prefer to feast on humans over other animals could help us design more effective repellants and prevent the spread of disease.
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  • 5 min
Colliding Senses: Life With Synesthesia
Hearing words that evoke visions of color or seeing letters that have gender are just a few examples of experiencing synesthesia. Jessica Johnson investigates this tangling of the senses.
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The Senses: How We Experience the World PowerPoint Presentation
Our senses do more than tell us when something smells sweet, or feels soft — they help us interpret our environment. This presentation will help you teach students how the brain processes our senses.
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What Can Animals Sense That We Can't?
A lot, it turns out. Some animals can detect forms of energy invisible to us, like magnetic and electrical fields. Others see light and hear sounds well outside the range of human perception.
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Senses and Sensibility: A Webinar
Have you ever wondered how you can catch a ball, see the color blue, taste chocolate, smell bad breath, or hear a bird song? Learn more in this Brain Awareness Week webinar.
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  • 53 min
Senses and Perception Race
Your students will see the finish line and taste the glory as they race the clock and each other in this interactive relay game.
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Smell: An Overview
The discovery of a large family of receptors detecting odor solved the mystery of how our brains perceive smell.
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Roundup: Scoping Out Smell
Check out some of our favorite images of the olfactory system in action.
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Roundup: Senses and Perception
How much do you know about how your senses work?
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The Nose Knows: Smell, Memory, and Emotion
What is it about smell that evokes such powerful memories? Find out in this video which earned an honorable mention in the 2016 Brain Awareness Video Contest.
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  • 4 min
Hearing Red, Tasting Blue: When the Senses Mix
Learn about the neuroscience behind synesthesia in this video which won first place in the 2016 Brain Awareness Video Contest.
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  • 5 min
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