Neuroscientist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED

[@pairoleggs]

i really love how she actually talks to the kids in this and takes time to engage them. so many of the professionals in this series don't really try to inspire complex thoughts or critical thinking but kids have some of the coolest ideas and thoughts.

[@JonJon-it8kk]

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[@kitkat2407]

It is pretty hard to reduce complex thoughts far enough that kids can and are willing to understand or have fun understanding it. So big props to the Neuroscientist.

[@larrypadilla8706]

Yeah exactly. That first little girl had some great insights immediately.

[@panoptischau665]

@@kitkat2407 Well to that I would losely quote Einstein, who said that you only truely understood something once you're able to explain it to a five-year-old.

[@KartikSPradeepan]

As someone who is currently pursuing their PhD in Neuroscience, the comments make me so happy that there is so much fascination with the brain. I firmly believe that in the next 50 years, we're really going to be pushing our understanding of it.

[@frummel403]

That is awesome! Good luck with your PhD 😃

[@salem-xh1pl]

good luck with your phd! ive always been fascinated with the brain and i dreamed of being able to pursue studies in neuroscience, unfortunately i can’t, but it makes me so happy whenever i learn about people currently in or aiming for neuroscience programs. I hope you do great things and are happy in your career

[@mocha8908]

@@salem-xh1pl you can’t? Why not? Care to share?

[@anna-ly.probst]

"The role of memory is much less about being accurate representation of the past and much more about being kind of a flexible compass into the future" - Dr. Shohamy This is so true and deep if you think about it.

[@freyialilian]

I love how she doesn’t assume what people know and therefore she doesn’t patronise them when sharing her knowledge. Such great communication!

[@YeansP]

For a seven years old, she sounds way smarter than her age!

[@ADITYA-yv9nh]

Its scripted she isnt that smart 😕

[@tengkualiff]

She is smarter than most politicians thats for sure

[@PimpMatt0]

@@tengkualiff Part of being a politician is lying and fooling the public. Part of working in media is putting politicians out of context for ratings. They're all here to manipulate you so you can ignore the real issues.

[@roguegambit8575]

@@ADITYA-yv9nh why do you say that

[@yuyukawa9104]

She made my heart melt

[@LoboMendez1]

watching the two at the end was so satisfying - they almost became giddy and their conversation was illuminating.

[@gvd3975]

I’m a journalism student, and I haven’t taken biology in 6 years. I held on through college student, and then I started to learn with the last two. THIS IS SO COOL. I forgot how much I love bio. I wanted to study it so badly when I was a child, but I don’t have the stomach to cut things up

[@kevinsundelin8639]

So many intelligent people in this video. The child's, whose name I don't remember, speaking of memory, understanding of the topic really surprised me. Very interesting video!

[@FatMat5695]

my favorite part of this series is that by the end of level 5, you feel part of the conversation and pretend to be an expert. just nodding, saying "yes, i concur"

[@caiodecastro7956]

Malafaia?

[@lindsayh.6976]

I love how excited the experts are when they talk to each other

[@harleyfroment1989]

every time ive seen a picture of the hippocampus or amygdala it was basically a 2d version, i didnt realise there was 2 of them.

[@AngelicReaper25]

The structures of the brain are pretty much mirrored on each side

[@ethanschaefer8327]

It's crazy finding out how wrong your memories actually are, one thing I heard was that the more impactful memories are the most likely to be corrupted, that the more you pull out a memory the more likely it is to change over time. Dunno if that's true or not

[@SilverHawk214]

I've heard that every time you remember something you are remembering the last time you thought about it. Details change or are forgot little by little.

[@milktea3825]

You know what I find really interesting? How traumatic memories get lost in your subconscious, like your brain just pushes them away. Also just the process of thinking, overthinking, visualising scenarios in your head, it's all so fascinating :D

[@stanpentagon]

That first kid is so smart! She thinks very logically 😯👏🏼

[@akiramurakami3177]

Sad that as she grows older, current society will teach her that emotion is more important and should abandon logic. As Buzz Lightyear told Woody: “snowflake, snowflake everywhere”

[@stanpentagon]

@@akiramurakami3177 you are absolutely right! that quote🥺 couldn't agree you more

[@xKarenWalkerx]

Memory is key to identity formation.

[@SenhorAlien]

Yeah.

[@winniejeng3976]

I’m so glad I listened until the end. When the expert talked about information network, brain as a dynamic circuitry/state machine, internal model of the brain reflecting and creating external model of the world, I feel like what I felt fuzzy about my field solidify a little more.

[@hazi2648]

The little girl is so smart! I’m so impressed with her

[@wafflesofjustice]

i’ve got a neurosci B.S. and stuff like this reminds me how cool the field is

[@lalakuma9]

That kid's really good memory just reminds me that my hippocampus has been shrunk by recurring depression

[@danielsayre3385]

The mental model that we have is very "reflective" of our previous experiences. I think that her particular insight there is worth more attention. We perceive through frequency, for the most part. Wavelengths of light are differing frequencies of the electromagnetic wave, sound is frequency of air pressure, etc. Then those frequencies are then somehow interpreted in context with templates that we have for different aggregations of frequencies we've experienced before. It's like we're self-organizing mirrors

[@meghanmonroe]

First one of these I could actually follow through all 5 levels. Awesome!

[@ElRealPetChicken]

That's awesome, are you studying in the same field as well?

[@abirroy1333]

A memory is a symphony of signals of your experience as the event unfolds. Thats why repeating the event makes it a solid semantic memory as it not only depends on one neural pattern of one particular event but a series of implicit and explicit memory signals superimposing over one another

[@BrianBeTryin]

This was fascinating and really well-edited. Thanks, Wired!

[@Daleysunshine]

As someone who truly loves this series, it would be lovely to see greater diversity in the teachers.

[@shubceee]

Hello wired, can you guys make an architect explaining one thing in 5 levels? Thanks for all these videos

[@polyglotava6443]

That's it. I'm definitely doing a Phd in Neuroscience.

[@MonicaG_]

Good luck and thank you!

[@1995marixsa]

I love this women,smart, inclusive, and just plain awesome to listen

[@adrianrocha49]

It's interesting, I've actually been thinking about "mental models" for the past couple weeks. What is it that leads people to develop certain mental models? Is it simply having lived a certain life and being treated a certain way by the people around them? Do innate biological predispositions play any role in the final mental model that a person may develop? I believe there is a finite truth to everything and that there are horrible as well as wonderful people in the world. What if we could fully map the mental models of the best people in the world, would it then be possible to replicate those mental models in future people, through education, through cultural engineering? These are questions I've been thinking about the past couple weeks.

[@boy638]

I watched the whole thing but I've forgotten what I've learned.

[@Andrea-fz3pm]

same lmao

[@EmperorPenguinXRemas]

Its not that difficult if you actually study the material

[@brianlittrell797]

@@EmperorPenguinXRemas What a username you have! I love it! Reminds me of The Matrix movie that is coming out soon. And how we are all destined to fully embody your username at some point in our future incarnations and for some of us maybe even our current incarnation.

[@starfishsystems]

As a computer scientist, I'm very happy to hear about this evolving sense that cognition maintains a model of the world, and in turn the model guides behavior. Memory decorates the model with episodic information, we might say, and more incrementally reshapes it with semantic information. But the model isn't some passive thing. It's actively engaged in imagination and planning. And so it's a bit of an artificial distinction to talk separately about memory and imagination. One is presumed to be accurate and the other is presumed not, but in fact they have almost identical functionality, and may rely on the same architecture. This is also evolutionarily more plausible than to suppose that they originated independently.

[@fumblerooskie]

Abigail is very very smart.

[@fbkintanar]

The 7-year old child Abigail made some smart comments, but she also said that memories are stored in the hippocampus. The neuroscientist never actually said that, the child was adding things to her memory of the conversation so that it made more sense to her! When does detailed memory slide into confabulation?

[@mykahanderson9599]

emma’s story made me cry that is so amazing

[@lewishelliwell9463]

This is a great video! I want to be a consultant neurologist when I am older.

[@whyisgamora4191]

How refreshing, after binging the physics videos, to finally understand what the expert's are talking about as a cognitive neuro/psych student :P

[@Angietherose]

This tickles my brain in such a good way.

[@justacutehyperbole121]

Perfect timing! I’m currently taking a Memory and Cognition course.

[@TerrelleCheers1]

My silly take on defining *"memory"* : It's your brain recording information and relaying it back in uniform with our previous encounters regarding modeled behavior.

[@kristenbistrican2750]

Are we sure that 7 year old wasn’t actually a PhD candidate?

[@bw4048]

by far one of the best series on KZbin

[@rachidvanheyningen]

My wife has aphantasia, I’m so curious to how she makes memories, especially making and recalling long term memories

[@carpiioo.806]

she is so beautiful, I was captivated by her the entire video and had to restart to watch it again, I wonder if she has ever taken a job also as an actor?? 🥺

[@robertschlesinger1342]

Worthwhile video for college students.

[@RiverNaiad]

The last conversation makes it seem like they're talking to Variants of each other.

[@kashiichan]

They already have the common ground, so it's just building on ideas.

[@DeeWeber]

Interesting because newer spatial therapy (described in The Body Keeps Score) is helping folks who have PTSD. I have so many questions to ask the experts at the end. Does a better memory make it easier or harder to make decisions? Or does it depend on the type of memory? Why do we remember remembering something? What can we learn about memory by looking at autism?

[@rdpcl]

"We don't remember random things. We remember the things that matter the most" Oh, so that's why I still remember the Pokérap lyrics!

[@thesweetchick]

Unfortunately memory storage happened in the moment, and at one point in time that was indeed very important to you. Too bad we can't consciously control the deletion process lmao

[@JaZmine147]

Or music lyrics in general. I don't even sometimes know I totally remember every single word in part of a song until I hear it again 3 years later and I can totally sing to it. Fascinates me every single time.

[@maiamaiapapaya]

Same for me with the japanese versions of avril lavigne songs

[@AL-fl4jk]

The boy asking if he would always choose pixie sticks if asked or what would cause him to change was deceptively simple question, it showed he was really processing the complicated ideas being presented

[@cmvamerica9011]

Memories are in our minds in a global way.

[@EmperorPenguinXRemas]

The hippocampus is also related to spatial memory.

[@EmperorPenguinXRemas]

Oh lol I see now that they talk about it later in the vid

[@finalfan321]

I think i'm gna remember Emma for a while in my hypocampus

[@laurencegido8653]

I need an explanation lower than the child level ngl 🤣

[@housnialami4330]

Dr. Dani just blew my mind. she is sharp!

[@BeGioBijoux]

So she’s a neuroscientist and dresses like that? Those boots Talk about being a badass 🤜🏻🤛🏻

[@MarkTDorsey]

I love these videos. Please keep making more!

[@maeminx]

Not sure if this series is STEM only, but I would love to see one featuring an historian!

[@fefiforum]

Let’s not spoil it 😝 🔭

[@dontworryyoullbealright6949]

I just wanna say how beautiful the college girl is, and also smart!

[@nickevershedmusic8927]

That 7 year old was very smart for her age

[@justyouraveragecupofjoe9812]

The hippocampus allows one to store memory shortly and process it as long-term memory if rehearsed enough, going to the prefrontal cortex.

[@xwinnilin]

abigail is so smart!!! when I was seven, I didn't even know what color "teal" was and here she is, able to explain memory so well. she even remembered the term "hippocampus" and was able to recall what the function of that part of the brain was! super impressed by her abilities as a seven-year-old. she's definitely going places! :p

[@zosoart]

I've been listening to Stephen Fry's podcast on psychology and it's great to see even further into those ideas here!

[@Harlem55]

except that this leaves out Einstein's GR, which in relevant part states that Mass = Energy. By process of elimination, we can state that memory is, correctly speaking, a biochemical state at the cellular level in the brain mediated by one or more the several neurotransmitters, given that we know that single cells communicate with each other via chemistry. It therefore follows under GR / quantum mechanics that memory is a form of energy which can be neither created nor destroyed, but which can change into various forms, varying in their degree of usability.

[@T-T....]

Where do forgotten memory go? And again how do we remember the forgotten memory?

[@animemangaluv13]

This is my favorite subject I love this

[@randomttm5038]

I love these videos so much - They're really easy to digest and they are great at dissolving these really complex and intricate topics into an understandable subject - This video was especially really interesting so thank you!

[@nudlnogen]

Abigail is just adorable and very smart!

[@bombdottcom111]

Great discussions!

[@acexon1112]

The brain is the most important part of the body. - brain

[@maryrosekent8223]

Abigail is one smart cookie!

[@mike9512]

This dog is my spirit animal.

[@creativecorner4715]

Now thats the coolest stuff I ever saw since long

[@creativecorner4715]

Expert level lady 👌

[@andresisrael5817]

I dissected a cow's eye too. The tapetum lucidum was so shiny and iridescent

[@furyhawk]

The models sound like autoencoder in Machine learning NN

[@donotcumforme6021]

That girl in college really make use of this great opportunity. She asked so many questions and it looks like she did study before coming to this discussion

[@loganbyrne3054]

I so want to join this group.

[@mosesmukambojr8707]

Get Stephanie Kelton to explain Modern Monetary Theory

[@christinajohnson6543]

Sometimes I wonder how I could possibly be the same person as the baby in the photo album 🤔 I think I'm just about due to have an existential crisis 🙃

[@kibirdie]

We need Professor Emeritus Abigail to explain vaccines for us. She seems to get it

[@camsiv]

Hi, please have me on the show, I have a PhD in political science and I teach at West Point and I would love to explain genocide on the five levels of the show!

[@nauy]

The hippocampus is the locus of binding.

[@whereswaldo511]

I'm glad they started with a child explanation l so I can understand what they were talking about as a 40 yr old adult 😂

[@ScienceJook]

keep pushing my self

[@jollythomas3328]

5:40 I can see he's passing out

[@JohnLundSweden]

Wow she's smart

[@jakobnunez4964]

The first kid has a better memory than me.

[@neiljohnson7914]

next episode: McDonald's worker explains "Do you want fries with that?" in five levels of difficulty.

[@lindamims3930]

Can you do battle damage again please

[@zarayense]

This is amazing

[@kitkat2407]

Neuroscience is a bunch of Brains trying to understand Brains

[@hamnporkgamer]

To brain or not to brain

[@Hhhhhhhhhhhh115]

This bought my psyc degree back to life 🤣

[@mailindarizki3722]

Very interesting, sadly i dont really understand the details

[@johnrowland3105]

Why can't we make TV shows like the ?

[@JavenarchX]

Hey may have chosen the candy which had the most reward. There are so many variables in any research all results should be critiqued

[@alexmorales8078]

this was so good

[@davidanthony6408]

As a child, my attention span was so bad, that I would have been like, What? I'm not sure of what we're talking about. Tell me again. I would have asked, what do you mean by a record in your brain? I understood about 4 concepts, and everything else was new and uninteresting. Yea, I wasn't smart.

[@maffyl822]

Listening to all these conversations made me realize whoa boy! I am so NOT as smart as i thought i was.

[@SenhorAlien]

14:23 that's not an error or fault, and neither is it an imperfection. It's a feature.

[@brianlittrell797]

Why is it not an error, a fault or an imperfection?

[@SenhorAlien]

@@brianlittrell797 all of those imply there being a design or purpose for the brain, where there is none. It cannot be an error if it works as "intended", or a fault/imperfection if there is no parameter for perfection to begin with.

[@brianlittrell797]

@@SenhorAlien Well everyone has their own idea as to what perfection is and what is imperfect. I guess to these persons it is an imperfection because it falls short of what they consider to be perfect or ideal.

[@cmvamerica9011]

The teenager seemed to be the most intelligent.

[@neiljohnson7914]

The next episode will be: Chewing gum explained in 5 levels of difficulty.

[@cmvamerica9011]

Superior Autobiographical Memory.