News Projects Exhibits prism goggles mri library test your memory seeing verses hearing cafe wall illusionGraphics About Resume Links	prism goggles This exhibit prototype was designed and built in collaboration with Eric Welch and The Franklin Institute for the upcomming Your Brain Exhibit. The interactive allows visitors to experience how quickly their brain can adapt to new sensory information. Visitors throw bean bags at a target and establish their baseline accuracy. They are then instructed to look through the prism goggles and throw the bean bags again. The goggles throws off their vision by twenty percent thus causing their aim to be to the right of the target. After several tries their brain adjusts and accuracy improves through motor adaptation. When the visitor takes the prism goggles off, the adaptation to the goggles is still in effect and their aim is too far to the left. Eventually the brain adapts again and accuracy is restored.
			A reset button allows visitors to retrieve the bean bags between rounds.