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You've got 100 billion cells in your
brain
doing this right now, sending all this information back about what you're seeing, hearing.
This is called rate coding: the harder you press on something, the more spikes there are, and all that information is coming up to your
brain.
The other way is that your
brain
is not only taking in electrical impulses, you're also sending out.
But that current's the same currency that our
brain
uses, so we can send that to our cockroach leg and hopefully if this works, we can actually see what happens when we play music into the cockroach.
How's your
brain
doing?
Testosterone and progesterone, when administered together, will suppress the signals from the
brain
to the testes to make sperm, and in about 90 percent of men, sperm production after three to four months will stop.
One of the funny things about owning a
brain
is that you have no control over the things that it gathers and holds onto, the facts and the stories.
But we want to use our
brain!
I reach into Lin's brain, he reaches into mine, this monologue becomes a dialogue.
It is as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the
brain
to a little fishing village where there are no phones.
While I give this talk, in the next 10 minutes, a hundred million of my cells will die, and over the course of today, 2,000 of my
brain
cells will die and never come back, so you could argue that the dying process starts pretty early in the piece.
Using a grid the size of your thumb, with 32 electrodes on the surface of his brain, Tim uses his thoughts to control an advanced prosthetic arm.
Maybe I can cut there, see the brain, and I can change my cut.
It activates the same areas in the
brain.
Maybe our neural centers in our
brain
are degraded such that we're unable to process negative emotions anymore.
There should be some kind of
brain
trust.
So this is a scientific diagram of my
brain
— (Laughter) — around the time when I was, when I started watching those TV shows.
If you wanted your
brain
for a particular body mass to be large, you had to live with a smaller gut.
When they put these guys in an fMRI machine, scanned their brains while they were memorizing numbers and people's faces and pictures of snowflakes, they found that the memory champions were lighting up different parts of the
brain
than everyone else.
Of note, they were using, or they seemed to be using, a part of the
brain
that's involved in spatial memory and navigation.
What I wanted to know was what was going on inside the human
brain
that prevented us from taking these warning signs personally.
To try and figure that out, I asked the participants in the experiment to lie in a
brain
imaging scanner.
And using a method called functional MRI, we were able to identify regions in the
brain
that were responding to positive information.
On the other side of the brain, the right inferior frontal gyrus was responding to bad news.
And if your
brain
is failing at integrating bad news about the future, you will constantly leave your rose-tinted spectacles on.
Could we alter people's optimism bias by interfering with the
brain
activity in these regions?
And by doing that, he's interfering with the activity of this
brain
region for about half an hour.
Then we interfered with the
brain
region that we found to integrate good news in this task, and the optimism bias disappeared.
This is a thousand-year-old drawing of the
brain.
And that's because today we can see what's inside of the brain, rather than just looking at its overall shape.
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