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Tom Wujec on 3 ways the brain creates meaning

Tom Wujec on 3 ways the brain creates meaning

3 ways the brain creates meaning (video by Tom Wujec) | Brain Friendly Trainer We all know that great visuals enhance learning. A recent talk by Tom Wujec explains what happens inside our heads as we process visual inputs. In his TED talk, Tom Wujec explains how he set himself the task of understanding how the brain creates meaning with the aim of improving communication so that we can think and collaborate more effectively. Key points from Talk: Eyes receive visual inputs and this is relayed to the primal visual cortex at the very back of the cortex. In the video he focuses on three of these areas that receive signals from the primal visual cortex and concludes that a great visual, encourages activation of different regions of the brain and help create meaning. We make meaning by seeing! So, how can we harness the brains power to make meaning by seeing? What other ways do you help people create meaning by seeing? Tom Wujec on 3 ways the brain creates meaning This entry was posted in Theory and tagged brain, limbic system, memory, neurology, retention, visual cortex.

Neural Flight Control Neural Flight Control Abstract- The brain is perhaps one of the most robust and fault tolerant computational devices in existence and yet little is known about its mechanisms. Microelectrode arrays have recently been developed in which the computational properties of networks of living neurons can be studied in detail. In this paper we report work investigating the ability of living neurons to act as a set of neuronal weights which were used to control the flight of a simulated aircraft. Publication: DeMarse, T. Movies: Selected Media Reports “Rat Pilots Jet into Tomorrow,” Imagine That! “Brain in a Dish Flies Plane,” Discovery Channel (2004). “Is that a Pilot in Your Pocket,” Wired News (2004). “Brain Grown from Rat Cells Learns to Fly Plane,” The Telegraph, United Kingdom (2004).

BrainSex – Why We Fall in Love? BrainSex - Why We Fall In Love, is an interesting documentary about the science and natural findings as to why humans fall in love. For centuries, love has been celebrated - and probed - mostly by poets, artists, and balladeers. But now, its mysteries are also yielding to the tools of science, including modern brain scanning machines. A handful of young people who had just fallen madly in love volunteered to have their brains scanned to see what areas were active when they looked at a picture of their sweetheart. Dopamine is the key chemical in the brain's reward system, a network of cells associated with pleasure - and addiction. In the same lab, older volunteers who claimed to still be intensely in love after two decades of marriage participated in the same experiment. It's way too soon - and hopefully, always will be - to say that brain scientists have translated all those warm and fuzzy feelings we call romantic love into a bunch of chemicals and electrical signals in the brain.

When words are not enough A Caregiver’s Guide to Understanding Alzheimer's Disease Symptom 1) Bernd Eberle/Blue Line Pictures/Image Bank 2) Giantstep Inc./Digital Vision 3) Jean Desy/First Light 4) Image Source 5) Uppercut Images 6) Medical Body Scans/Photo Researchers Inc. 7) BLOOMimage 8) Jack Star/Photolink 9) Lisa Kyle Young/Photodisc 10) Marcy Maloy/Digital Vision 11) BSIP/Photo Researchers Inc. 12) Jeffrey Coolidge/Photodisc 13) Troy Plota/Uppercut Images 14) Angelo Cavalli/Stone 15) Martin Diebel/David Lees/Digital Vision 16) Jeremy Woodhouse/Blend Images 17) Ryan McVay/Stone 18) Steve Pomberg/WebMD 19) Bambu Productions/Taxi 20) Thinkstock 20) AFP/Stringer 22) Laurence Mouton/PhotoAlto 23) Sounders Studio/FoodPix Alzheimer’s Association. American Health Assistance Foundation.

The Day We Learned To Think Understanding of humans' earliest past often comes from studying fossils. They tell us much of what we know about the people who lived before us. There is one thing fossils cannot tell us; at what point did we stop living day-to-day and start to think symbolically, to represent ideas about our environment and how we could change it? At a dig in South Africa the discovery of a small piece of ochre pigment, 70,000 years old, has raised some very interesting questions. Anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) emerged in Africa roughly 100,000 years ago. We know from fossil evidence that Homo sapiens replaced other hominids around them and moved out of Africa into Asia and the Middle East, reaching Europe 40,000 years ago. Prof Richard Klein believes art is a landmark in human evolution. No other animals, after all, are able to define a painting as anything other than a collection of colours and shapes. Watch the full documentary now (playlist - 46 minutes)

What goes around goes around… | Brain Friendly Trainer I sometimes think it’s interesting to take a step back, reflect on progress and to analyse some aspect of our industry. Whenever I do this however I am more often than not struck by one thing – It’s funny how things go around. Many years ago I recall my first inspirational training boss (There have been too few!!) click on image to enlarge I have no idea where he got it from (but I’ll bet one of you knows It is read from left to right and defines the steps to take when a performance discrepancy occurs. Step 2 is “Is it a skills deficiency?” If the person used to be able to do it but can’t now, the solution suggested is practice and feedback NOT training. It seems to me that this was then simplified somewhat. , first published in 1996, Max Landsberg introduced us to the “Skill / Will matrix” (Page 55 in the book) and this was the lore on which many coaching conversations have taken place over recent years. And so we move into the 21st Century where little, it seems, has changed:

List of keyboard shortcuts for Word 2002, Word 2003, and Word 20 This article was previously published under Q290938 This article describes keyboard shortcuts that are available in Microsoft Office Word 2010, Word 2007, Word 2003, and Word 2002. If one of the keyboard shortcuts doesn't work for your version of Word, go to one of the following articles: NotesThese keyboard shortcuts refer to the U.S. keyboard layout. Keys on other layouts might not correspond exactly to the keys on a U.S. keyboard.For keyboard shortcuts in which you press two or more keys at the same time, the keys to press are separated by a plus sign (+).For keyboard shortcuts in which you press one key immediately followed by another key, the keys to press are separated by a comma (,).This article does not cover customizing keyboard shortcuts or creating keyboard shortcuts for macros or AutoText. Microsoft Office basics Display and use windows Use dialog boxes Use edit boxes within dialog boxes Use the Open and Save As dialog boxes Undo and redo actions Close a task pane Move a task pane

Why Are We Here? In this short documentary, Dawkins takes a look at the purpose of human existance and asks the earthshaking question – Why are we here? Pointing out that religious stories of human purpose fail miserably, Dawkins indicates that science may be able to offer a better explanation for human existence. Starting out with Darwin, he claims that Darwin’s theory of evolution may offer the only explanation for humanity’s raison d’état that we are likely to ever get. Many religious believers may claim that answers for our existence offered by evolution theory mean that humans are nothing special, that we are just another species of animal. Clearly humans are different from our animal brothers in that we have the ability to ask questions like why are we here. Watch the full documentary now (playlist - 24 minutes)

Your brain is a stage with only four actors | Brain Friendly Trainer The basis for my last two posts has been a region of the brain called the prefrontal cortex and I have highlighted some of it’s limits. In his book Your Brain At Work David Rock likens this region to a theatrical stage. At various times there will be actors on the stage and it is these actors that we are describing when we talk about what we are focussed on. So right now you may have a reading actor on your stage as you read this, you may also have a musical actor on stage if you are playing some background music, you may have your e-mail sorting actor on stage and / or potentially one or more of many. But here is the problem with the prefrontal cortex – it’s stage is really really small.There is only room for 4 actors at a time. The latest research suggests that we can only hold 4 things in our pre-frontal cortex and even then we can only pay attention to one of these at a time. So what does this mean in practical terms? What I found is fascinating. We would say he needs lots of practice

SimplyShredded.com Neuroscience of Free Will On several different levels, from neurotransmitters through neuron firing rates to overall activity, the brain seems to "ramp up" before movements. This image depicts the readiness potential (RP), a ramping-up activity measured using EEG. The onset of the RP begins before the onset of a conscious intention or urge to act. Some have argued that this indicates the brain unconsciously commits to a decision before consciousness awareness. Others have argued that this activity is due to random fluctuations in brain activity, which drive arbitrary, purposeless movements.[1] Philosophers like Daniel Dennett or Alfred Mele consider the language used by researchers. Overview[edit] ...the current work is in broad agreement with a general trend in neuroscience of volition: although we may experience that our conscious decisions and thoughts cause our actions, these experiences are in fact based on readouts of brain activity in a network of brain areas that control voluntary action... William R.

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