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　　The brain is the most complex organ in the body, but it can be misled at the drop of a hat. Examples of master manipulators would be Hollywood directors who devise new ways to elicit emotions, magicians like David Copperfieldtricking millions of people with their grand illusions, and even pickpocketscreating small distractions to swipe wallets. This month, National Geographic Channel goes inside human skulls to explain how brains are hardwired to make sense of what we see, hear, smell, touch, and taste in Test Your Brain. This three-part series helps viewers get a better understanding about memory and how the senses can be easily distorted.
　　If the brain is the ultimate supercomputer, Copperfield is one of the besthackers the world has ever known. He, along with a group of experts, tests, tricks, and deceives a group of volunteers with audience control. Hollywood directors also know how to hoodwink viewers to make them feel the sensationsthey want. Have you ever watched a movie scene so gruesome that you had to turn away because you felt you were being hurt? Test Your Brain reveals why people actually feel illusions with their eyes.
　　Detectives don't have easy jobs, and to make it even harder, 10 witnesses to the same crime can pick 10 different suspects out of a police line-up. This means that every single person has his or her own selective memory, and sometimes false memories are created during recollection. Test Your Brain dives into the tiniest intricacies of the brains which make us who we are.

腦力大挑戰
　　從魔術師到電影導演，每個人都想矇騙你我的大腦。
大腦是人體最複雜的器官，但它也可能瞬間被誤導。設計新穎手法以引發觀眾情緒的好萊塢導演、像大衛．考柏菲等以華麗錯覺唬住數百萬人的魔術師，甚至是使人稍微分心好偷走錢包的扒手，都是矇騙高手的例子。本月國家地理頻道的《腦力大挑戰》系列，將探索頭殼內的奧秘，解開大腦神經如何聯結，以使我們理解五種感官知覺。這個系列共分 3 部，幫助觀眾更加了解自己的記憶力，以及我們的感官有多容易受到扭曲。
　　如果大腦是終極超級電腦，那大衛．考柏菲就是世界上最著名的駭客之一了。他和 1 群好手以操控觀眾的方式，試探、唬弄而騙倒一些志願上台的觀眾。好萊塢導演也知道該如何矇蔽觀眾，讓他們的喜怒哀樂照自己的劇本走。你可曾看到某部片的恐怖場景，因為錯覺自己會受傷而別過頭不看？《腦力大挑戰》系列將揭曉為什麼人類用雙眼看東西會產生錯覺。
　　警探的工作一點也不簡單，而讓他們的工作更加艱難之處在於，同一宗犯罪案件的 10 個目擊證人可以在警局的一排嫌疑犯中，指認出 10 個不同的嫌犯。這表示每個人都有選擇性記憶，有時候在回想時還會產生錯誤的記憶。《腦力大挑戰》系列探究人類頭腦最細微錯綜複雜之處，就是這些成就了每個人的獨特之處。