The BEST episodes of Brain Games season 1

Every episode of Brain Games season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Brain Games season 1!

National Geographic Channel's Emmy-nominated series Brain Games returns this summer with 10 new mind-blowing episodes! Host Jason Silva gets inside your head and shows you what's really going on in there with an intricate series of interactive experiments designed to mess with your mind and reveal the inner-workings of your brain. Hailed by critics as "tremendous fun" that "makes science entertaining," Brain Games turns your mind's eye inwards for a fascinating journey into the three and a half pounds of tissue that makes you... you.

Last Updated: 2/17/2024Network: National GeographicStatus: Ended
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Watch This!
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8.18
397 votes

#1 - Watch This!

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/9/2011

Hollywood filmmakers create mind-bending sensory illusions; an illusion causes people to "feel" via their eyes; one blind man can "see" with his ears.

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Pay Attention!
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8.01
243 votes

#2 - Pay Attention!

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/2011

When it comes to mastering and manipulating attention, some of the world's leading experts aren't scientists; they're magicians like David Copperfield. While the brain's attention acts a bit like a spotlight to filter and make sense of a busy world, it can be easily controlled and deceived. Copperfield and a team of experts test, trick and fool using an elegant form of attention control.

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Remember This!
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7.95
177 votes

#3 - Remember This!

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/2011

With memory, things are not always as they seem: Details go missing, recollections change, and sometimes our brains fill in the blanks and create false visual memories. Our experts are on a mission to find out where memories reside in the brain by examining every millimeter for clues. Investigating every piece of the memory puzzle, from how we recognize faces even if they have been digitally distorted to how we can move memories from short-term to long-term storage.

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