Anatomy & Physiology

Adapting to Color

Change your perception of color by flooding your eyes with colored light.

Where: Bechtel Gallery 3: Seeing & Listening

Bird in a Cage

Stare at a bird’s eye for 30 seconds, then look into the empty cage. You’ll see a ghostly bird—of a very different color—inside the cage

Where: Bechtel Gallery 3: Seeing & Listening

Blood Cells in Your Eye

Gaze into the eyepiece at the blue light, looking for bright specks moving in short bursts against the background, and feeling your pulse as you watch them.

Where: Gallery 4: Living Systems

Bronze Hand

The combination of past experience and the sight and feel of being touched seems to change your brain's definition of your body's boundaries. You may even feel as if the fake hand is part of you.

Where: Osher Gallery 1: Human Phenomenon

Floater Theater

Floater Theater is an intimate theatrical environment that whimsically prompts participants to explore the fascinating, commonly experienced phenomenon of eye floaters.

Where: Bechtel Gallery 3: Seeing & Listening