Brain Zone includes lots of fun activities which explore
how the brain works, but the most important message of the exhibition is '
how do we carry out experiments where data can be hard to capture?'. It is of specific interest to students studying psychology but is an interesting illustration of
How Science Works for all students from UKS2 upwards.
- The Brain Atlas shows what each part of the brain does. The peripheral information shows the neuroscientific techniques that have been used to find out this information.
- The Gaze Experiment places pairs of students in the role of subject and observer, recreating an important psychological experiment.
- Quantifying Behaviour is another opportunity to explore how data can be collected from complex environments to identify differences in behaviours.
- Block Building is an anthropological experiment in which the students become subjects. On different days, the partitions between the stations are made opaque, transparent or removed altogether and the contact and interaction between students is monitored.