Choreographed brain experiences.
Two- to three-minute tours in which the brain animates through a sequence of activations while a calm narration walks beside it. Watch, don't navigate — the tour unfolds at its own pace.
It begins with photons. Light reflected from the page reaches the retina, where rods and cones translate it into electrical signal.
How you read this sentence
A 2-and-a-half minute journey through the language network.
Reading is a sequence of computations — photons to phonemes to meaning. This tour traces the path through visual cortex, the temporal lobe's semantic system, and the inferior frontal regions that integrate it all into sentence-level understanding.
Open the tourThe act of remembering
A 2-minute journey through how the past is reconstructed.
Memory is not stored and retrieved like a file from a drive. It is reconstructed at each recall, and the reconstruction reshapes the trace. This tour traces one act of remembering — from the cue arriving at cortex, through hippocampal binding, through default-mode integration, to the trace re-closing in a new shape.
Open the tourWhat's still you when you stop trying
A 2-and-a-half minute tour of the default-mode network.
When task demands fall away, a particular set of brain regions becomes more active rather than less. Mind-wandering, autobiographical retrieval, future imagination, self-evaluation. This tour traces the network that holds the felt-from-inside continuity of being a self — and the careful empirical work that named it.
Open the tourWhen something matters
A 2-and-a-half minute tour of the salience network.
Long before the word 'important' arrives in your mind, a separate set of brain regions has already decided. The amygdala flags weight. The anterior insula notices the body's response to it. The anterior cingulate keeps watch. This tour traces what salience-detection looks like from the inside — and the felt sense of mattering that arrives before any reason.
Open the tourHow a face becomes someone you know
A two-and-a-half minute tour of face recognition.
Seeing a familiar face is one of the brain's faster integrations — perception, identity, emotional weight, and autobiographical context all bound into a single felt sense of who-this-is in under a second. This tour follows the route, and ends on the question of how much of recognizing someone is reconstruction.
Open the tourHearing music
A 2-and-a-half minute tour of the auditory and reward pathways.
Why does a chord change move you? The hearing of music recruits a particular sequence of cortical and subcortical regions — primary auditory cortex first, the spectral-processing right hemisphere, the limbic and reward circuits that turn organized sound into something felt. This tour traces one moment of hearing.
Open the tourSix tours are currently available. More will appear as new rooms land and the brain encoding model is wired to live inference.