Brain Games: Pay Attention! Pictures

Photo Gallery: Pay Attention!

Suspended Cards
Photograph by NGT
Six cards suspended in mid-air
Recording Sound Effects
Photograph by NGT and Jeff Boedeker
Foley artists using unique materials to create sounds for the hit movie, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
Neuron in the Brain Stem
Photograph by NGT
CGI: Looking down a neuron in the brain stem.
Motion Capture Apparel
Photograph by NGT
Actress Jivanta Roberts dressed in "motion capture" apparel
Motion Capture Studio
Photograph by NGT
A motion capture equipment studio
Hippocampus
Photograph by NGT
A CGI view of the brain's hippocampus. Your senses send information to this tiny part of your brain. Its job is to store only the important stuff and toss out what isn’t useful. Anything you don’t need this very moment will be lost within 20 seconds.
Criminal Lineup After Memory Game
Photograph by NGT
The criminal line-up after the memory game, where 8 of 10 witnesses identified incorrectly #5 as the man they saw rob an elderly gentleman in Washington Square Park.
Creating Seamless Sensory Perception
Photograph by NGT
A man is strapped to a vertically mounted park bench; liquid from a bottle falls in the direction of gravity.
Control Room
Photograph by NGT
A large board to control sound and lighting effects
Contorted Face
Photograph by NGT
A contorted face with various textures. Our brains are hardwired to recognize faces. It happens in the dense mass or neurons in the temporal lobe called the fusiform gyrus. From birth, it's programmed to seek out and remember individual faces—even when they're upside down or contoured.
Coffee Break
Photograph by NGT
Shadows help our brains perceive the size, distance, and perspective of objects.
Memory Maps
Photograph by NGT
By turning numbers into objects, one can create "memory maps" to help visualize information. For instance, in this case the car stands for the number four because it has four tires, and the cat stands for number nine because a cat has nine lives.
Knife-Wielding Actor
Photograph by NGT
Two actors playing a scene in which a guy accidentally cuts his hand while chopping fruits.

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