Featured at the The London Science Museum, The Cheltenham Science Festival, many British Science Week sessions and schools, Forum départemental des Sciences (Lille), The Brain Game is a flexible set of fun activities that can be reconfigured for a wide range of participants.
Gets people off their chairs to pass messages around the audience in a way that shows how brain cells pass messages
Recruits audience members to play the part of axons and synapses on stage
Makes sense of words like “axon” and “synapse”!
Shines a spotlight on the mystery inside our heads and reveals that in some ways it is very simple, and in others it is the most puzzling thing of all. And it is a very good game.
The Brain Game at the Cheltenham Science Festival
Audience participation
Activities in small groups
Games and demonstrations
Competitions
Q&A sessions
Developed to help people, of all ages, develop a better image of what goes on inside their heads. It avoids over-simplification and gets right down to the way we currently understand how the brain really works. Various combinations of its components have been used with great success in more than 50 schools, The Science Museum (London), The Cheltenham and Cardiff Science Festivals, and in informal ‘Science Cafe’ settings.
The Brain game at the Barbican, London
Successful in schools, festivals and a range of public events, The Brain Game gets past all of the confusion that surrounds what people think they know about how the brain works and down to the nitty-gritty of neurons. It is not afraid to expose the fact that in most respects we don’t know how the brain works; and that is the essence of the real brain game, the exciting game of neuroscience. Many of the big questions are yet to be answered.
The Brain game at the Science Museum, London