Is Seeing Believing? New Frontiers in the Science of the Senses

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From cooking breakfast to driving home from work, we rely on the body's natural interfaces for nearly every task. Ironically, our senses are easily fooled and seem to affect each other in strange ways. This program follows new explorations in biology, neurology, and psychology that are shedding light on how the five senses work-not just as individual abilities but in tandem. Demonstrations feature bizarre optical illusions that reveal the subjectivity of color; a magic show that illuminates the eye-brain relationship; a synesthete who makes fresh food taste stale through the use of ambient sound; and a man who lost his sight as a child and has learned how to echolocate, bat-style, by clicking his tongue.