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Is Seeing Believing?

   Horizon, 2010-2011 Episode 4 of 15
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   Horizon explores the strange and wonderful world of illusions - and
   reveals the tricks they play on our senses and why they fool us.

   We show how easy it is to trick your sense of taste by changing the
   colours of food and drink, explain how what you see can change what you
   hear, and see just how unreliable our sense of colour can be.

   But all this trickery has a serious purpose. It's helping scientists to
   create a new understanding of how our senses work - not as individual
   senses, but connected together.

   It holds the intriguing possibility that one sense could be mapped into
   another. This is what happened to Daniel Kish, who lost his sight as a
   child. He is now able to create a vision of the world by clicking his
   tongue which allows him to echolocate like a bat.

   And in a series of MRI scans, scientists are now looking to find out if
   Daniel's brain may have actually rewired itself enabling him to use
   sound to create a visual image of the world.
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Release date:

   18 October 2010

   1 hour

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