60 minSeason 8 • Episode 8
LatestGet ready to have your mind messed with! "Brain Games" is a groundbreaking series that uses interactive experiments, misdirection and tricks to demonstrate how our brains create the illusion of seamless reality through our memory, through our sensory perception, and how we focus our attention.
Direction
Slick interactive design that breaks the fourth wall constantly.
Practical Effects
Low-fi optical illusions hit harder than any CGI trick.
Editing
Rapid-fire pacing keeps you too busy to catch the manipulation.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The famous 'invisible gorilla' experiment featured in early episodes became so culturally ubiquitous that 'inattentional blindness' entered mainstream vocabulary.
Keegan-Michael Key's hosting brought improv energy that separated this from dry PBS science docs — he essentially turned cognitive psychology into sketch comedy.
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