Test My Brain
Test yourself and help us learn more about the mind and brain.
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The Spinning Woman · Cognitive Daily
Science blog, Cognitive Daily, explores the spinning woman illusion. If you haven't seen the illusion yet, its definitely worth taking a look!
The Hungry Brain · Scientific American
Feel like a snack after doing these tests? You're probably not the only one!
Welcome to Test My Brain!
Click on any of the links below to test your skills and get personalized feedback about your performance relative to others who take the tests.
How well can you recognize facial expressions? What words would you use to describe yourself?
In this experiment, you will be asked to make judgments about different words.
We will also give you a (challenging) test to see how good you are at recognizing different facial expressions of emotion.
We are trying to learn how your word judgments relate to your ability to recognize emotions from faces.
Open to all ages, this experiment takes 20 minutes to complete.
Your gut feelings about dots on a screen may reveal your math abilities -- find out how!
In this experiment, we will ask you to play a game to find out how precise your "gut number sense" is. How good you are at this game may relate to your mathematical ability. Are you better than your co-workers?
Open to all ages, this experiment takes 15 minutes to complete.
Can you identify famous people from their faces?
Face recognition can be surprisingly difficult when you have only face information to work with. Take this test to see how your face recognition measures up to your peers. Open to all ages. Takes about 5 minutes to complete.