Brain Tutor 3D 1.0

Few things are as tantalizing and mysterious as the human brain. While we think we have a pretty good idea of everything it does, there are still chunks of gray mater in there that we are clueless about.

Even the areas that we do know still have some mysteries that are yet to be unravelled. Unfortunately, Brain Tutor 3D doesn’t try to solve these problems, nor does it facilitate this kind of research. But what it does is it tells you what we know so far about the brain.

A brain atlas

Brain Tutor 3D is best described as an atlas that contains information about major parcellation schemes of the cerebral cortex. This includes lobes, gyri, sulci and the Brodmann areas.

With the Select tab highlighted, it starts off with a list of main portions of the brain, and allows you to choose these portions based on the aforementioned categorization. Then, you can go through the remaining four tabs to visualize what you’ve selected, such as the frontal lobe, or the parietal lobe, etc.

Ancient interface

For all the amazing things it shows you, Brain Tutor 3D really has an outdated interface and one that hasn’t even been optimized for 4-inch displays, let alone bigger iPhones. It’s really a shame, considering the amazing things it can teach you about the human brain.

The graphics aren’t all that crisp either. While it may have looked marvelous on an iPhone 3GS, it’s no so awesome on an iPhone 5.

Brain slicing

Probably the coolest thing about Brain Tutor 3D is the ability to look “inside” the human head using real-time slicing. You just select an area you’re interested in and move over to the Head tab. You then proceed to swipe left and right to advance through or revert the slicing and catch a glimpse of where that portion is situated inside the brain in 3D.

Low firmware requirement, no iPad version

Brain Tutor 3D could well be the only app on iTunes that supports every firmware from iOS 2 to iOS 7.

That’s right, according to the app store listing, it only requires iOS 2.2 to run, which technically means this one supports every iDevice Apple has ever released, starting with the iPhone 2G.

Unfortunately, we can’t give it the max score here because it lacks the proper optimizations for newer devices. Also, there’s no iPad version, and this kind of app makes the most sense on a tablet.

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