Any area you’re looking at will be highlighted while the rest of the brain turns transparent so you can have a proper look. Point and click on anything you’re curious about, click and hold to rotate the whole thing. This interactive environment is extremely easy to use. The app looks good but unassuming at first, so much so that, I confess, I’ve skipped the tutorial instructions, relying on my PC-game-trained brain to handle the controls to Brain. Half an hour and a strongly-exercised Wernicke’s area later, I’m still finding out I own bits of brain I hadn’t even thought I needed before (like a Wernicke’s area). It all starts with a dialogue-box tutorial - that can finish in literally two clicks - followed by an introductory bit of text next to a floating, 3D model of the human brain. “ is allowing visitors to get inside the brain, teaching us the eight key concepts we all need to know about how the brain works, showcasing a scientifically accurate, interactive 3D model of the brain that reveals internal structures,” says John Morrison, the site’s editor-in-chief. It’s a pretty compelling pitch, one I couldn’t pass on when BrainFacts asked me to take a shot at 3D Brain and see if I like it. It’s the first platform of its kind, devoted to giving anybody with an internet connection, no matter their background, a basic understanding of how our brain works and how it shapes our behavior, wants, and fears. With that in mind, a “public information initiative of The Kavli Foundation, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, and the Society for Neuroscience – global nonprofit organizations dedicated to advancing brain research,” has teamed up with the Wellcome Trust, a biomedical research charity based in London, UK, to create a very fun tool named “3D Brain” (link at the bottom of the article.) Knowledge on its own isn’t much use, however, if it doesn’t work its way into still-functioning brains. Naturally, researchers have been trying to unlock its secrets out for a long time now, and although there’s still more to discover, our understanding of the brain is deeper than ever. Now, you can explore its intricacies in a novel interactive platform dubbed 3D Brain.
Wonderfully resourceful and frighteningly complex, the human brain took us from bashing sticks together in the stone age to a force of geological proportions.
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