Neil Burgess: How your brain tells you where you are

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12 жыл бұрын

www.ted.com How do you remember where you parked your car? How do you know if you're moving in the right direction? Neuroscientist Neil Burgess studies the neural mechanisms that map the space around us, and how they link to memory and imagination.
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@excelerolreview2279 10 жыл бұрын

You have shared very interesting video on brain. I really like this.

@NickCombs 12 жыл бұрын

I found the triangular grid patterns the most interesting part. We tend to divide our world into square grids (at least in most of the US), but a triangular grid might have made our cities much more intuitive to navigate and remember. It's hard to imagine that, since I've lived in a square grid city all my life, so it would be cool to see that tested out.

@GlueRman1 12 жыл бұрын

That's actually a very good presentation and an extremely interesting subject! TED's true glory!

@Truthiness231 12 жыл бұрын

So very cool to see this, it explains some [until now] confusing data I gathered some time back: I was giving my dogs treats and noticed when I gave her two she'd always take one away to bury it, so I got out some paper and a box of milkbones and kept giving them to her so she'd bury a whole bunch, and I noted where in the yard she picked to bury them. I managed to get 18 points plotted before she got tired, and all of them were in the middle or corner of a boundary of one type or another.

@SAsgarters 12 жыл бұрын

Exceptionally good talk.

@delaneywalsh 10 жыл бұрын

I'd like to know more about links between dysfunction in these types of cells and certain mental illnesses. Any research on that?

@Truthiness231 12 жыл бұрын

@Theraot Sadly no, it was more just me goofing around at the time when I was taking a behavior science class. I do, however, still have the chart of spots she picked and it's not like it would be hard to reproduce (and actually if a behavioral scientist were to do something like this but more deeply detailed, it'd be nice to see other animals (like squirrels) that store foods and where in their environment they store it as well (and of course compare and contrast)).

@ShaneH 12 жыл бұрын

Hippocampus helps you get around the campus.

@NickCombs 12 жыл бұрын

@dinos98 If you understand the processes by which our brains work in everyday situations, you can then begin to improve on the design of what the brain has to work with in the environment, and thus make life easier in a variety of areas. Finding a car in a parking lot is just a very simple example, since we are constantly fusing these types of neuron firings wherever we go.

@Republic3D 12 жыл бұрын

@Tait011 It says Quake 2 in the upper left corner. That means it's the id Tech 2 otherwise known as Quake II graphics engine.

@NielloEd 12 жыл бұрын

i love how they use quake 2 engine 4:14

@DivingDeveloper 12 жыл бұрын

I think in 800x600 too :-) An excellent talk!

@helimax 12 жыл бұрын

4:30 wuuuu , that is cool

@late_arvie 12 жыл бұрын

4:32 I know those rocks! (been playing around with VHE) :)

@oO_ox_O 12 жыл бұрын

@NjC121 And have only rotaries as crossroads?

@HueyTheDoctor 12 жыл бұрын

Thumbs up if you remember seeing that texture/sky box in the background of Half-Life 1. Brings back so many awesome memories for me. I guess that means they were using WorldCraft to create little bsp's in the Quake 2 engine. Old school gaming code ftw.

@EgoNomiQ 11 жыл бұрын

Dude I noticed that too thought it was loading!

@BrendanBeckett 12 жыл бұрын

@TheGerogero Things like this we can understand. But it may not be possible to understand certain fundamental questions like the mind/body problem. Since minds are a precondition for thinking about minds, it could be that we can't get underneath that. The Taoist tradition says language cannot describe the universe because the universe is a precondition for language. I'm sympathetic to this argument.

@swirlcrop 12 жыл бұрын

Good video. :-)

@junka22 12 жыл бұрын

3:57 Quake 2! :)

@MrPianoJames 12 жыл бұрын

@petsoukos The word does come from the Latin. It is late Latin which you could argue derives from Greek.

@caseygtr 12 жыл бұрын

@G12002 I see you noticed that they were using Quake.

@evilrolo 12 жыл бұрын

@dorsk188 It derives from Greek but is used as a Latin term, as is my understanding, so Hippocampi or Hippocampus are probably fine

@FightClubStellingen 12 жыл бұрын

how would he explain that time I was searching for my car for about half an hour, but it was just a row next to me ?

@KrazedViper29 11 жыл бұрын

Is this Barry Scott???

@barryscott-bricks6626 3 жыл бұрын

No I don't think so but he has the same name and sounds similar

@jmalmsten 12 жыл бұрын

As someone who has been called by many friends by the name "lack-of-sense-of-direction-man", because I get lost easily when in visiting new areas. I would have liked it if he went on and looked into what actually happens when these brain-functions malfunctions. Or as we say. When we get lost...

@Talon3000 12 жыл бұрын

Quake 2 for science! HELL yes! xD

@Dorsae 12 жыл бұрын

Barry Scott & Cillit Bang brought me here.

@StickerWyck 12 жыл бұрын

Place cells come in handy when you're trying to find that Rail Gun you need to get past the Strogg.

@MichalCanecky 12 жыл бұрын

Some stores have separated entry and exit doors, making finding a car much more difficult.

@phatpat63 12 жыл бұрын

What's with all the editing in this video? You can hear the cuts in the audio track.

@justgivemethetruth 12 жыл бұрын

100 billion neurons … over a trillion connections … amazing. I always wonder about this, remembering space and distance and orientation.

@dinos98 12 жыл бұрын

@dumbnetworks Hey you do a great Napoleon Dynamite impression!

@najtrows 12 жыл бұрын

I WANT 720P!!!

@Mynameisnumber5 12 жыл бұрын

Man, everything is incredible

@marsbars747 18 күн бұрын

it really is

@DmNetworks 12 жыл бұрын

good idea,the "you may also like"

@ehcmier 12 жыл бұрын

@YawnGod This use of Homer is covered under fair use, since the image and name are being used for educational purposes. SOPA, however, is silly when it's not being dangerous.

@HigherPlanes 12 жыл бұрын

@YawnGod I was very frustrated when all this SOPA stuff went down and my grandma asked me what's wrong, so I sent her a link, she wrote back to me saying, "I don't get it, what do they have against soap?"

@Buoy2 12 жыл бұрын

@chubito33 you blew it

@Zerodis 12 жыл бұрын

7:29 D'oh!

@DarkNemesis25 12 жыл бұрын

@Benawisan they fixed the sound finally.. i think.. only lazy people need the 0:15 link lol

@udonthavetoknowwho 12 жыл бұрын

Does this explain ahy I suddenly wake up from sleep the the bus when I am near my bus stop?

@eivfaivce 12 жыл бұрын

@FightClubStellingen because you were looking for the relative location, not for the car itself.

@noxturno 12 жыл бұрын

What happes when the information its no longer needed ? Where is it stored ?

@xjaskix 12 жыл бұрын

@ciaochowbella is that you, Neil?

@afroditi86 12 жыл бұрын

Hippocampus is not latin for sea horse. It comes from the Ancient Greek hippos meaning "horse" and kampos meaning "sea monster".

@Hannah-bg3xq Жыл бұрын

actually that is wrong. it is both. don’t talk about my dad like that. won’t ask you again.

@chatterjee35 5 жыл бұрын

Barry Scott has changed

@PavilionbyAngie 6 жыл бұрын

How does this information benefit patience with dimentia?

@PavilionbyAngie 6 жыл бұрын

patients *

@youdevil6 12 жыл бұрын

Ron Paul 2012!

@YawnGod 12 жыл бұрын

@ehcmier I wonder...if TED is a Google Partner (it might not be) and it receives money from Google, or revenue from any other source though its talks, then, if I'm not mistaken, using Homer's image and generating revenue from it would be copyright infringement. If I'm not mistaken. I'm not a lawyer.

@Sleepy.Time. 12 жыл бұрын

The brain is so amazing.

@lui9717 3 жыл бұрын

Hello to any University of Portsmouth students who have been told to watch this too :)

@evelinc3909 3 жыл бұрын

Hi :)

@rainforestangel 12 жыл бұрын

is that why the journey home in the car always seems quicker?, because in theory your brain is taking a more direct route?

@alejandravillarroel840 10 жыл бұрын

Great complex findings. But I just press my panicked panicking button in my key chain to find my car or call the police toll free number or the security guards! Less brain wearing down I find! ;-)

@garfieldallen7640 9 жыл бұрын

@Gewbacca 12 жыл бұрын

This is pretty sweet but there is one dimension missing to our reality. I would love to see the grid diagram from the grid diagram based on a 3 dimensional space rather than the 2 dimensional space.

@Pulsar77 12 жыл бұрын

How does Homer remember where he parked his car? Seriously? How hard can it be, he drives a pink Plymouth!

@Roothmans 12 жыл бұрын

0:15 starts

@subrisubrika5652 4 жыл бұрын

0:43 actually around 86 billion neurons not 100 billion

@ashliebelle 12 жыл бұрын

It's funny that there's at least one neuron who's sole purpose is to let me know "There's a wall there"

@petitpois9140 3 жыл бұрын

and yet I still managed to hit that wall

@FRIV0L0US_1 12 жыл бұрын

Remember kids... we parked in Itchy lot

@TheGerogero 12 жыл бұрын

Brains are complicated :I can we use the brain to fully understand the brain?

@imaedacomment 12 жыл бұрын

Quake 2 engine?! Or is it just me?

@petsoukos 12 жыл бұрын

Woah! Woah! You started with an error. "Hippocampus" comes from the Ancient Greek hippos meaning "horse" and kampos meaning “sea monster". Not Latin.

@Hannah-bg3xq Жыл бұрын

what ur mouth mate. that’s my dad

@Oneshot8242 12 жыл бұрын

@WyldOrbit They don't, really. They use stunt doubles.

@YawnGod 12 жыл бұрын

I wonder if that guy had permission to use the image of Homer Simpson. Oh SOPA. You're silly.

@gemis94 12 жыл бұрын

@dinos98 The research in psycology can for example provide new ways of creating artificial inteligence systems, which in future will affect our daily lives. May I ask what is your point. If you aren't interested in science, it certainly doesn't mean that it's worthless just because you don't happen to give a crap. You weren't forced to whatch this, so, go troll somewhere else please.

@bahamu 12 жыл бұрын

Half-Life sky boxes. lol

@NickCombs 12 жыл бұрын

*using, not fusing

@IseeRightThrough2you 12 жыл бұрын

3 people's place cells led them to the wrong button.

@paperbulletbice 12 жыл бұрын

no edge

@klutterkicker 12 жыл бұрын

I don't like when the seconds are shaved off during breaths here.

@Hannah-bg3xq Жыл бұрын

My dad (Neil Burgess Phd, FRS (speaker of the talk) and ex director of neuroscience at UCL) agrees and has been banging on about it since he did this talk. On the eve of his 56th birthday I don’t think he could receive a greater present than the peace this will bring him. Thank you klutterkicker.

@SourcesAreEverything 12 жыл бұрын

I just had a nerdgasm

@cornerback4074 5 жыл бұрын

HI IM BARRY SCOTT

@dorsk188 12 жыл бұрын

Hippcampus is greek, wouldn't the plural be "Hippocampuses" or "Hippocamps" something?

@dr-maybe 12 жыл бұрын

That map was made with the Half Life engine.

@evilrolo 12 жыл бұрын

@evilrolo *Hippocampuses

@blacklotus13 12 жыл бұрын

c'mon ted, every fuckin cartoon and crappy vlog on uTube is 1080p now, keep up!

@GHortaV 12 жыл бұрын

People! PLEASE help me vote down the 0:15 people. It's my new life's mission

@Jonatube2 12 жыл бұрын

Rats are pretty smart. Arent they?

@mahela1993 6 жыл бұрын

The speaker is going too fast for us mere mortals.. :/

@chubito33 12 жыл бұрын

under 300 and no good comments yet...now's my chance...

@JDNuvo 12 жыл бұрын

You tried to train me like a rat. I'd rather starve.

@youdevil6 12 жыл бұрын

@dinos98 Your the troll.

@martynakvedaraite7042 4 жыл бұрын

cilit bang??

@GlennD96 11 жыл бұрын

I can't watch this. the editing is terrible, just isn't natural to speak so fast.

@pinochska 12 жыл бұрын

@xXEpicOwnageXx ROFL

@Lesserthannone 12 жыл бұрын

Klingons use grid cells!

@pinochska 12 жыл бұрын

4th

@lu933964 12 жыл бұрын

@lithium0611 wanna cookie?

@TomFynn 12 жыл бұрын

I don't think that Homer remembers anything.

@ArmisVideo 11 жыл бұрын

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@JDNuvo 12 жыл бұрын

Why? What do I know? I'm just a girl.