How Exactly Is the Human Brain Organized?
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Published 2020-04-09
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In order to get accurate and precise data on the human brain, we need to use a piece of technology like functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI.
fMRIs are extremely common in modern neuroscience studies because the advanced tech can give us information about what kind of activity is happening in different parts of the brain in response to different tasks or just at rest. fMRIs work by showing us where blood is flowing in the brain, but they can’t tell you what someone is thinking.
The brain is a key component in our central nervous system (along with the spinal cord); it has to interpret and process information it receives from the outside world, and then coup with responses for it.
When we look at the brain from the side, we can see three big structures. The cerebrum, the cerebellum, and the spinal cord.
So today, we’re going to learn the regions of the brain, what happens in each one, and how to correctly interpret a headline that makes a claim about your brain.
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How Your Brain Works
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Learning How Little We Know About the Brain
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“So many large and small questions remain unanswered. How is information encoded and transferred from cell to cell or from network to network of cells? Science found a genetic code but there is no brain-wide neural code; no electrical or chemical alphabet exists that can be recombined to say ‘red’ or ‘fear’ or ‘wink’ or ‘run.’”
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All Comments (21)
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Brain: nominates itself as the most complex anatomy
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The fact that we all got a conscious but it’s no proof other than us just all agreeing we have it still fascinates me till this day.
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When you your amaze how your brain works but then realize that your brain is amazed by itself on what it can do and how he works basically our brains did not know what stuff it already knows.
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1:10 bold of you to assume that I don't fear the teadmill
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It's fascinating how the human brain works, or how brains work in general. It's not as simple as people thought it was back then, we're figuring out new things about the brain that we thought were false before
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Bold of you to assume my brain is 'organized' at all.
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School is basically useless at this point. I’ll just keep getting educated with seeker and other very educational channels!
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The human brain is awesome it functions 24/7 from the day we are born and only stops when we are taking an exam
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“The brain is the most beautiful and complex thing in the world” -the human brain
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my brain is more organized than I am
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I love how this is so complex and very well explained.
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beautiful this is what I call art the brain is such a magnificent structure and this is the reason why I am pursuing a career as a neurologist or maybe even a neurosurgeon. wonder full video sir ❤️
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“I praise you because in an awe-inspiring way I am wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, I know this very well”
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Seeker is doing a brilliant job with these in depth series
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😂I’m high and drunk and all I can think about is “a brain explaining what my brain 🧠 can do “
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The best introduction ever (IMO).
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I am not into biology ( I am more into Physics )but this was very interesting. Can you do a video about how the brain stores information and how it recalls information because that must be very complex. We can store and combine almost everything from sound to smell, thoughts, pictures, ( movie and still) colors etc. And some people can memorize almost everything, others almost nothing. Some are good in combining and analysing, others can remeber and reproduce a huge amount of data, but are bad at analysing and combining data. I knew someone with an absolute pitch memory. If I played an accoord on the piano he could tell me the separet notes. I asked him how that worked and he told me, it is just as seeing colors, you know it is red and you can also see that it is light red or dark red or if to colors are the same. You do not need a reference. I can tell if two tones are close or the same if I hear both ( like when tuning a guitar) he could tune a string without any reference) like most of us can tell that color is red without any comparing.
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Broc is Hank Azaria's cousin, but they spell their names differently, Broca's Area. It's great to learn all about the brain and also have that reinforcement that the things that people discover aren't the final discovery, like Broca who discovered that part of the brain after the two men couldn't speak anymore from injuries to the sides of the head, and it still turned out it wasn't that easy.
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I learn something new. Thanks for updating my knowledge of the brain
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Hi seeker Another interesting episode.. Patrick kelly's explantion is so good.. Thanks seeker..🙏👍😊
