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Bristol Neuroscience Festival returns
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The Bristol Neuroscience Festival, running from the 22nd to the 24th March in the Wills Memorial Building and open to the public for free, will celebrate cutting-edge brain research in the city.
There will be the opportunity to hear from world-leading academics and take part in interactive exhibitions and experiments for all ages.
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At the Festival there will be the opportunity to wander through the gallery and peruse the artwork from the ‘Brain Art’ competition, explore hands-on science experiments and activities and meet and talk to neuroscience students, clinicians and local organisations to learn and discuss all things brain-related.
On Friday 23rd March Professor Paul Howard-Jones, from The Secret Life of 4 and 5 Year Olds, will talk about how humans got so smart by delving 3.5 million years into the past and journeying into the future. Where will evolution take us next?
There will also be free short talks by University of Bristol academic researchers describing the discoveries they have made – from how we make memories to the effects of sleep on mental health and why being distracted makes you fall over.
This year there will be the chance to try out a human-human interface where one person can take control of another person’s limb using only their muscle power and explore a replica of the T Rex brain as part of our Evolution of the Brain exhibition.
The Festival is open to the public on Friday from 4 – 6 pm and all day on Saturday 24th March. Professor Paul Howard-Jones’s plenary talk will be in the Victoria Rooms at 6:30 pm on Friday 23rd March. Schools are invited to attend the Festival on the 22nd and 23rd March.
Click here to see the full programme of events and to book for free.
Follow the Festival on Twitter here.
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