MYTH OR SCIENCE
THE SECRETS OF OUR SENSES
There’s a revolution going on. And it involves something we take for granted – our senses. Every waking moment they flood us with sights, sounds, smells, tastes and feelings. They allow us to experience the world around us. Although they’re crucial to our survival, we still know very little about them.But now a new breed of scientists is attempting to unlock their secrets. To do that, they’re using bizarre and unorthodox methods to trick our brain into revealing how our senses really function.
To investigate this extraordinary world, Dr. Gardy heads to the U.K to meet a magician who is also a professor of psychology. In Los Angeles, she’s tricked into adopting a rubber hand as her own – and then gets
stabbed with a fork. At Oxford University, she takes the world famous potato chip test, and in Germany Gardy explores whether humans, like members of the animal kingdom, can actually smell danger. “This was an incredibly fun documentary to make,” says Gardy. “I love being the
human guinea pig and I was tremendously surprised to find out how easily our
experimenters could fool me with some of the sensory tricks you’ll see in the show.”
In Myth or Science: The Secrets of Our Senses, Dr. Jennifer Grady goes on a mission to uncover how scientists are rewriting our understanding of the senses and what that means for the way we function every day.
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Director
Jeff Semple
Host & Narrator
Dr. Jennifer Gardy
Executive Producer
Dugald Maudsley
Writer
Monika Delmos
Story Consultant
Dugald Maudsley
Editor
David Murray
Director of Photography
Nigel Akam
Sound Recordist
Michael Kennedy
Composer
Jeffrey Morrow
Researcher
Monika Delmos
Production Manager
Diane Marcotte
Production Coordinator
Gillian Main
Visual Effects Designer
Mark Alberts, Electric Square
Post Production Supervisor/Online Editor
Eric Wiegand
Visual Researcher
Elspeth Domville
Additional Camera
Peter Meakin
Re-recording Mixer
Grant Edmonds
SFX Editor
Andy Frech
Assistant SFX Editor
Hatley Edmonds
Colour Correction
Creative Post
Publicist
David Mccaughna
Special Thanks
Ciusss North Island
Covent Garden Market Authority
Goldsmiths University of London
James Simon
Lakwena Maciver
Lawrence Rosenblum
National Trust, White Cliffs of Dover
Oxford City Outdoor Markets –
Presented by LSD Promotions
Tai-kien-boxen Dojo
Uniklinik Rwth Aachen
University of Leeds
University of Oxford
Archival Material Courtesy Of
Getty Images/Rubberball Productions Llc
Pond5
For Infield Fly Productions
Producer
Dugald Maudsley
Business Affairs
Gillian Main
Production Accountant
Rebecca Humble Mcculloch
Legal Counsel
David Steinberg
For the CBC
General Manager, Programming
Sally Catto
Executive Director, Unscripted Content
Jennifer Dettman
Senior Director, Documentary
Sandra Kleinfeld
Executive in Charge of Production
Sue Dando
Director of Production, Unscripted Content
Alexandra Lane
Director of Finance, Unscripted Content
Julie Lawlor
Produced with the Participation Of
Canada Media Fund
The Canadian Film or Video Tax Credit
Ontario Media Development Corporation
Rogers Telefund
Produced in Association With
The Nature of Things with David Suzuki
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
www.cbc.ca/natureofthings
(Copyright 2017)
@ 2017 IF: Myth 6 Productions Inc.
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