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Brain Games

7.5
8 seasons
65 episodes
Ended
Documentary
Comedy
Reality

Plot Summary

Get 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.

First Aired:October 9, 2011
Last Aired:March 2, 2020
Episode Runtime:1h 0m
Networks:
National Geographic

Cast & Characters

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Seasons (9)

Season 1
8.0

Season 1

3 episodes

Aired: 2011

Season 2
7.9

Season 2

12 episodes

Aired: 2013

Season 3
7.9

Season 3

10 episodes

Aired: 2013

Season 4

Season 4

10 episodes

Aired: 2014

Season 5
8.9

Season 5

10 episodes

Aired: 2015

Season 6

Season 6

6 episodes

Aired: 2015

Kicking off the summer, Jason Silva hits the streets of New York and Las Vegas with new, captivating social experiments that reveal mysteries of the human mind. Experts across the fields of cognitive science, neuroscience and psychology join Silva in uncovering the processes behind daily activities, such as positive thinking, sleep, perspective, imagination, the unscrupulous world of scams and more. And delve into the differences and similarities between humans and animals in relation to jealousy, eating, memory, mating and more.

Season 7

Season 7

6 episodes

Aired: 2016

Season 8

Season 8

8 episodes

Aired: 2020

Production

Atomic Entertainment

National Geographic