Neil Burgess: How your brain tells you where you are
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- čas přidán 5. 02. 2012
- www.ted.com How do you remember where you parked your car? How do you know if you're moving in the right direction? Neuroscientist Neil Burgess studies the neural mechanisms that map the space around us, and how they link to memory and imagination.
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Hippocampus helps you get around the campus.
I found the triangular grid patterns the most interesting part. We tend to divide our world into square grids (at least in most of the US), but a triangular grid might have made our cities much more intuitive to navigate and remember. It's hard to imagine that, since I've lived in a square grid city all my life, so it would be cool to see that tested out.
You have shared very interesting video on brain. I really like this.
That's actually a very good presentation and an extremely interesting subject! TED's true glory!
So very cool to see this, it explains some [until now] confusing data I gathered some time back: I was giving my dogs treats and noticed when I gave her two she'd always take one away to bury it, so I got out some paper and a box of milkbones and kept giving them to her so she'd bury a whole bunch, and I noted where in the yard she picked to bury them. I managed to get 18 points plotted before she got tired, and all of them were in the middle or corner of a boundary of one type or another.
Exceptionally good talk.
i love how they use quake 2 engine 4:14
@NjC121 And have only rotaries as crossroads?
Thumbs up if you remember seeing that texture/sky box in the background of Half-Life 1. Brings back so many awesome memories for me. I guess that means they were using WorldCraft to create little bsp's in the Quake 2 engine. Old school gaming code ftw.
@dinos98 If you understand the processes by which our brains work in everyday situations, you can then begin to improve on the design of what the brain has to work with in the environment, and thus make life easier in a variety of areas. Finding a car in a parking lot is just a very simple example, since we are constantly fusing these types of neuron firings wherever we go.
4:30 wuuuu , that is cool
I'd like to know more about links between dysfunction in these types of cells and certain mental illnesses. Any research on that?
@Tait011 It says Quake 2 in the upper left corner. That means it's the id Tech 2 otherwise known as Quake II graphics engine.
Is this Barry Scott???
No I don't think so but he has the same name and sounds similar
@Theraot Sadly no, it was more just me goofing around at the time when I was taking a behavior science class. I do, however, still have the chart of spots she picked and it's not like it would be hard to reproduce (and actually if a behavioral scientist were to do something like this but more deeply detailed, it'd be nice to see other animals (like squirrels) that store foods and where in their environment they store it as well (and of course compare and contrast)).
I think in 800x600 too :-)
An excellent talk!
Dude I noticed that too thought it was loading!
4:32 I know those rocks! (been playing around with VHE) :)
3:57 Quake 2! :)
Barry Scott & Cillit Bang brought me here.
Quake 2 for science! HELL yes! xD
@G12002 I see you noticed that they were using Quake.
Good video. :-)
how would he explain that time I was searching for my car for about half an hour, but it was just a row next to me ?
Man, everything is incredible
it really is
Some stores have separated entry and exit doors, making finding a car much more difficult.
Place cells come in handy when you're trying to find that Rail Gun you need to get past the Strogg.
7:29 D'oh!
Does this explain ahy I suddenly wake up from sleep the the bus when I am near my bus stop?
good idea,the "you may also like"
Hippocampus is not latin for sea horse. It comes from the Ancient Greek hippos meaning "horse" and kampos meaning "sea monster".
actually that is wrong. it is both. don’t talk about my dad like that. won’t ask you again.
I WANT 720P!!!
@TheGerogero Things like this we can understand. But it may not be possible to understand certain fundamental questions like the mind/body problem. Since minds are a precondition for thinking about minds, it could be that we can't get underneath that. The Taoist tradition says language cannot describe the universe because the universe is a precondition for language. I'm sympathetic to this argument.
is that why the journey home in the car always seems quicker?, because in theory your brain is taking a more direct route?
As someone who has been called by many friends by the name "lack-of-sense-of-direction-man", because I get lost easily when in visiting new areas. I would have liked it if he went on and looked into what actually happens when these brain-functions malfunctions. Or as we say. When we get lost...
@dumbnetworks Hey you do a great Napoleon Dynamite impression!
What's with all the editing in this video? You can hear the cuts in the audio track.
@petsoukos The word does come from the Latin. It is late Latin which you could argue derives from Greek.
100 billion neurons … over a trillion connections … amazing. I always wonder about this, remembering space and distance and orientation.
Ron Paul 2012!
@dorsk188 It derives from Greek but is used as a Latin term, as is my understanding, so Hippocampi or Hippocampus are probably fine
Remember kids... we parked in Itchy lot
The brain is so amazing.
0:15 starts
@chubito33 you blew it
How does Homer remember where he parked his car? Seriously?
How hard can it be, he drives a pink Plymouth!
@YawnGod This use of Homer is covered under fair use, since the image and name are being used for educational purposes. SOPA, however, is silly when it's not being dangerous.
@ciaochowbella is that you, Neil?
How does this information benefit patience with dimentia?
patients *
It's funny that there's at least one neuron who's sole purpose is to let me know "There's a wall there"
and yet I still managed to hit that wall
Barry Scott has changed
What happes when the information its no longer needed ? Where is it stored ?
@YawnGod I was very frustrated when all this SOPA stuff went down and my grandma asked me what's wrong, so I sent her a link, she wrote back to me saying, "I don't get it, what do they have against soap?"
@Benawisan they fixed the sound finally.. i think.. only lazy people need the 0:15 link lol
@FightClubStellingen because you were looking for the relative location, not for the car itself.
This is pretty sweet but there is one dimension missing to our reality. I would love to see the grid diagram from the grid diagram based on a 3 dimensional space rather than the 2 dimensional space.
Great complex findings. But I just press my panicked panicking button in my key chain to find my car or call the police toll free number or the security guards! Less brain wearing down I find! ;-)
Ok
Hello to any University of Portsmouth students who have been told to watch this too :)
Hi :)
Quake 2 engine?! Or is it just me?
0:43 actually around 86 billion neurons not 100 billion
3 people's place cells led them to the wrong button.
Brains are complicated :I can we use the brain to fully understand the brain?
@ehcmier I wonder...if TED is a Google Partner (it might not be) and it receives money from Google, or revenue from any other source though its talks, then, if I'm not mistaken, using Homer's image and generating revenue from it would be copyright infringement. If I'm not mistaken. I'm not a lawyer.
*using, not fusing
no edge
I just had a nerdgasm
Woah! Woah! You started with an error. "Hippocampus" comes from the Ancient Greek hippos meaning "horse" and kampos meaning “sea monster". Not Latin.
what ur mouth mate. that’s my dad
Half-Life sky boxes. lol
I don't like when the seconds are shaved off during breaths here.
My dad (Neil Burgess Phd, FRS (speaker of the talk) and ex director of neuroscience at UCL) agrees and has been banging on about it since he did this talk. On the eve of his 56th birthday I don’t think he could receive a greater present than the peace this will bring him. Thank you klutterkicker.
@WyldOrbit They don't, really. They use stunt doubles.
I wonder if that guy had permission to use the image of Homer Simpson.
Oh SOPA. You're silly.
That map was made with the Half Life engine.
HI IM BARRY SCOTT
Hippcampus is greek, wouldn't the plural be "Hippocampuses" or "Hippocamps" something?
Rats are pretty smart. Arent they?
The speaker is going too fast for us mere mortals.. :/
People! PLEASE help me vote down the 0:15 people. It's my new life's mission
@dinos98 The research in psycology can for example provide new ways of creating artificial inteligence systems, which in future will affect our daily lives. May I ask what is your point. If you aren't interested in science, it certainly doesn't mean that it's worthless just because you don't happen to give a crap. You weren't forced to whatch this, so, go troll somewhere else please.
c'mon ted, every fuckin cartoon and crappy vlog on uTube is 1080p now, keep up!
@evilrolo *Hippocampuses
You tried to train me like a rat. I'd rather starve.
Klingons use grid cells!
under 300 and no good comments yet...now's my chance...
cilit bang??
@dinos98 Your the troll.
I don't think that Homer remembers anything.
@lithium0611
wanna cookie?
@xXEpicOwnageXx ROFL
4th
Yep, annoying. I wonder whether I would have noticed it if I hadn't read your comment beforehand :)
I can't watch this. the editing is terrible, just isn't natural to speak so fast.
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Why? What do I know? I'm just a girl.
Why are there just bikini girls in my suggestion box while watching this video?!
Happy owner of a highly complex mammalian brain.
A hideous and horrible lecture I've ever seen. general audience are not brain neurologist. speaker says for whom?
Ron Paul 2012!
Armis board game is designed to provide a fast brain workout.
Some benefits of playing Armis:
* Armis develops critical thinking skills, and provokes logical thinking,
* Armis builds self-esteem, and inspires you to be inventive.
* Armis spurs you to plan for and attain success.
* Armis emboldens you to learn and understand complex matters easier and faster,
* Armis boosts will-power,
* Armis sharpens your analytic and cognitive mind,
* Armis triggers post-traumatic growth