The Unknown Brain : TED Radio HourThe brain can seem as mysterious as a distant galaxy, but scientists are starting to map and manipulate its many regions. In this hour, TED speakers take us on a trip through the human brain.
What do we know about the human brain and what do we still need to learn?
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What do we know about the human brain and what do we still need to learn?
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The Unknown Brain
The brain can seem as mysterious as a distant galaxy, but scientists are starting to map and manipulate its many regions. In this hour, TED speakers take us on a trip through the human brain.
"Once I awoke...I could not walk, talk, read, write; I could not recall any of the details of my life. Jill Bolte-Taylor died that day." - Jill Bolte-Taylor
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"Human cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience are starting to give us an answer to...who we are as thinkers." - Nancy Kanwisher
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"Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way." - Rebecca Saxe
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"Understanding consciousness is a real key, I think, both to understanding the universe and to understanding ourselves." - David Chalmers
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