Past April 1st, 2nd and 3rd, students in 1 º ESO at IES Joan Corominas, Premia de Mar and students of 3 º ESO at IES Montjuïc, Barcelona discovered how our brain changes and also how sometimes it deceives us. They participated in the activity ‘ Brain plasticine’ organized by the research group cognition and plasticity IDIBELL and the University of Barcelona within the program EscoLab.

Students have known a bit better brain regions and have experienced how sometimes the reality does not match the perception of our brains through various visual and memory experiments.

They also saw the daily work of researchers at cognition and plasticity group. They could see how electric waves produced in our brain as the emotions we feel through the polygraph test using measures of EDA (electrodermal activity) to capture the variations of sweat on the fingers in different situations such at rest or watching a scary movie.

The EscoLab is an initiative of the Barcelona Science Program of the Institute of Culture and Science Culture Programme of the Institute of Education of the City of Barcelona and with the participation of IDIBELL and many other research centres, which offer various activities.