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Brain Day 2009

a group of people standing around a book

 Professor of Psychology Karen Gunther talks with Brain Day participants about different types of color-blindness and testing for each.

a man teaching a child how to use a model of the brain

 Professor of Psychology Neil Schmitzer-Torbert explains a brain model to a couple Brain Day participants.

a man tying a string on a boy's head

Carnegie Museum intern and Wabash student Adam Current '11 hooks up electrodes to someone to show brain activity. 

a group of people in a room

 Daniel King '10 (center) and Stephen Apostolidis '12 (right) lead an activity on perception.

a woman and a child sitting at a table

 Coloring pictures of the brain and looking at actual brains were among two things the community could do during Brain Day at the Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County.

a group of women looking at something on their hands

 Dr. Gunther talks about the brain specimen with two Brain Day participants.

a man and woman looking through a microscope

 Dr. Schmitzer-Torbert assists someone with microscope slides of brain cells.

a woman and a girl looking at a counter

Cross-sections of the brain allowed Brain Day participants to getting inside the mind of different animals.

a man looking at a laptop

 Adam Current '11 conducts an EEG.

a girl looking through a microscope

 Checking out the brain on a microscopic level.

a woman and a girl playing a board game

 Dr. Gunther demonstrates how the brain can play tricks on us and lead us to believe we are being touched just by visualizing touch.

a man and woman looking at a table with food

 Dr. Schmitzer-Torbert talks about the differences in brain specimen.

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