Test My Brain
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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 good are you at holding information in your mind over short time periods?
How does this compare with how well you retain information over longer periods? In this experiment, you will be tested on your ability to hold numbers, pictures, and symbols in mind for short periods of time. Open to all ages, this experiment takes 15 minutes to complete.
Can you tell if someone is gay or straight based on their face? Religious or not religious? Democrat or Republican?
When someone identifies with a certain group, does it show in their face? See how you compare to others in your ability to judge sexual orientation, political affiliation, religiousness, and other types of information from faces alone. Open to all ages, this experiment takes 15 minutes to complete.
How well can you read people?
Can you judge identity from only face information? This test looks at two different aspects of face processing -- judging facial expressions and judging face identity (face recognition). We also look at your memory for word pairs and aspects of your personality to see how they might relate to the way you process faces. Does your personality or your memory influence how well you can read other people? Find out by taking this test. Open to participants of all ages, this test takes 25 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.
Do you see what I see?
In this experiment, we will ask you to identify what you see in a brief video, and then assess certain aspects of your personality. Does your perception of certain kinds of motion relate to your personality?
Open to all ages, this experiment takes 5 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.