The Origin of the Human Mind: Brain Imaging and Evolution

UCSD cognitive scientist Martin Sereno takes you on a captivating exploration of the brain's structure and function as revealed through investigations with new advanced imaging techniques and understandings of evolution. Series: "Grey Matters" [12/2005] [Science] [Show ID: 11186]

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Education

Tags:

• brain
• development
• Grey
• Matters
• imaging
• neurology

[djzacmaniac]

PLEASE READ!!!Aoccdrnig to rseerach at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

PS: Hwo'd yuo lkie to run tihs by yuor sepll ckehcer?

[Valdegg]

UC TV is so much more intellectually stimulating and less depressing than normal TV!

[Megatronicful]

@djzacmaniac that is awesome

[Evilrolfharris]

@Evilrolfharris Feed*

[Evilrolfharris]

Maybe the killer whale is training us to fee it fish?

[jdoc1350]

Hello. Great lecture. Interesting how he suggests that spatial awareness and language are similar timeline contructs. I'm currently doing my basic brain anatomy and have noticed that the hemisphere's are relatively symmetrical, for example the homunculi represented on it's surfaces. Except, that is, spatial awareness and language,which are associated with the left and right respectively.

[tokotokotoko3]

Here is a nice counter-talk by Chomsky: watch?v=2v6XFkSwVys

I think he would find the approach interesting - especially the part where the language was not invented for communication. Then again in the talk he describes lots of properties that are so specific to humans, that slow evolution alone can't explain it.

[2011rhythmdivine]

The brain too underwent an evolution. Thanks to Darwin! Thanks to modern efforts to explain such.

[AAAjMMMiRRR]

@qwertypluss I got to know these stuffs mostly from reading but my final year project was on speech recognition. I used a training algorithm derived from ANN.

[qwertypluss]

@AAAjMMMiRRR We don't even know what consciousness is my friend! It's an ongoing problem.

Out of curiosity, what did you study in electronic engineering which including ANNs?

[AAAjMMMiRRR]

@qwertypluss I'm an electronic engineer and I found the ANN very fascinating during my studies. Yes, can ANN experience consciousness or does it need something else?