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Visitors actively experience in a playful way how fascinating the human brain functions, what enormous achievements it performs and where its limits lie. In an enlarged interactive translucent brain model (scale approx. 1:5), the human sensory organs can be activated by touching of 7 touchscreens equipped with a camera: eyes, nose, mouth, ears, sense of touch (skin). When a visitor approaches a screen it reacts and in the corresponding cortex region, which primarily processes this sense,lights up in the brain model, images 1 and 2.
In a strongly enlarged neuronal network, a central neuron can be excited by buzzers, so that its axon causes Mr. Bean to stick out is tongue, image 3.
There are numerous topics offered, such as the development of the brain, mirror neurons, memory, multitasking, language, illusions, interactively presented in a playful way, as well as games on logic, on paradoxes, on speech comprehension under diffcult conditions, and much more.
The exhibition consists of 25 stations, 7 monitors (55‘‘) , 12 posters (180cm x220 cm). It is held in 3 languages: German, English, Italian. The information is also available via iPad station-related.
Detailed description for museum guides and digital material including video and audio for advertising and for training and lectures are also available / part of this offer. All exhibits are barrier-free. You can visit the special exhibition at the moment in the Welios Science Center in Wels / Austria up to the end of August 2020.