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

Can You Spot the Human?

An array of embryo photos—can you guess which one is human? Then try it with photos of different eggs. And sperm.

Where: Gallery 4: Living Systems

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

Give Heart Cells a Beat

Give Heart Cells a Beat invites visitors to control human heart cells, using their heart rate to drive the beating of the cells.

Where: Gallery 4: Living Systems

Hoop Nightmares

Your brain adapts quickly to a warped view of the world, turning baskets into air balls.

Where: Bechtel Gallery 3: Seeing & Listening

Answer questions about certain of your physical features, such as what color your eyes are, and how attached the bottoms of your ears are to your head. Then find out what roles genes and your environment play in these traits.

Where: Gallery 4: Living Systems