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Running time
  
33 minutes (approx.)

Language
  
English

8.6/10
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Country of origin
  
United States

First episode date
  
9 October 2011

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Original network
  
National Geographic Channel

Original release
  
October 9, 2011 (2011-10-09) – present

Presented by
  
Neil Patrick Harris, Jason Silva

Networks
  
National Geographic, National Geographic Society

Cast
  
Jason Silva, Neil Patrick Harris

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Brain Games is a popular science television series that explores cognitive science by focusing on illusions, psychological experiments, and counterintuitive thinking. Neil Patrick Harris was the unseen narrator in the first season, replaced by Jason Silva for the remainder of the series as its host and presenter; in addition, sleight-of-hand artist Apollo Robbins has been a frequent consultant and illusionist guest on the show. The show is interactive, encouraging television viewers, often along with a handful of live volunteers, to engage in visual, auditory, and other cognitive experiments, or "brain games", that emphasize the main points presented in each episode. The series debuted on the National Geographic Channel in 2011 as a special. It returned in 2013 as a regular series. Its return as an original series in 2013 set a record for the highest premiere rating for any National Geographic Channel original series with 1.5 million viewers.

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  • Neil Patrick Harris – Narrator (season 1)
  • Jason Silva – host (season 2 – present)
  • Apollo Robbins – sleight-of-hand artist, "deception specialist"
  • Eric LeClerc – illusionist
  • Max Darwin – illusionist
  • Ben Baily – comedian
  • Jay Painter – comedian (season 2 episode 5, "Power of Persuasion")
  • Andrei Jikh - cardist (season 4 episode 9, "Patterns")
  • Shara Ashley Zeiger – improviser
  • Bill Hobbs – author
  • Jordan Hirsch – improviser
  • Amanda Hirsch – improviser
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  • Steve Schirripa (season 2 episode 12, "Liar, Liar")
  • Art Shapiro – American University
  • Amy Bastian
  • Alex Todorov - Princeton University
  • Brady Barr
  • Brian Scholl – Yale University
  • Coren Apicella – psychologist, University of Pennsylvania
  • Chess Stetson – Caltech
  • Dan Simons
  • Frans De Waal – Emory University
  • Forrest Griffin - UFC fighter (season 3 episode 8, "Mind Your Body")
  • Helen Fisher - anthropologist , Rutgers University
  • Jim Coan – psychologist, University of Virginia
  • Jonah Berger – University of Pennsylvania
  • Joshua Ackerman – MIT
  • Kamran Fallahpour – Brain Resource Center
  • Karen Wynn
  • Laurie Santos - Yale University
  • Mark Changizi – theoretical neurobiologist
  • Michael Bisping - UFC fighter (season 3 episode 8, "Mind Your Body)
  • Rhoda Boone - Food artist (season 4 episode 7, "Food")
  • Shankar Vedantam – NPR science correspondent
  • Susan Carnell - Johns Hopkins University
  • Suzanne Dikker - New York University
  • Sri Sarma – Asst. Professor, Johns Hopkins University
  • Scott Barry Kaufman
  • Sara Mednick - University of California
  • Season 1 (2011)

    Season 1 consists of three one-hour pilot episodes.


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