Human Brain Video. Brain Video. The Brain and Senses. Welcome to the Brain and Senses!
Hi, we are Dr Ellen Poliakoff and Dr Luke Jones and we’re experimental psychologists. This means that we find out how people think and how the brain works. Brain. How Your Brain Works" Every animal you can think of -- mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, amphibians -- has a brain.
But the human brain is unique. Although it's not the largest, it gives us the power to speak, imagine and problem solve. It is truly an amazing organ. Your Amazing Brain. You carry around a three-pound mass of wrinkly material in your head that controls every single thing you will ever do.
From enabling you to think, learn, create, and feel emotions to controlling every blink, breath, and heartbeat—this fantastic control center is your brain. It is a structure so amazing that a famous scientist once called it "the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. "