(Laughter) With me, everybody (Audience and Dan Dennett) Every time you read it or say it, you make another copy in your brain.

It's those windows and what they're doing to your brain.

If I am in a bad mood, I actually force a smile.

There was, however, one really interesting and telling difference between the brains of the memory champions and the control subjects that they were comparing them to.

It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine, where we upload anarchy to your brain.

When you think of it, there is 99 things that can age us.

And when you did, you focused in on that one license plate as it sped by.

Got a brainstorm, huh, Sebastian?

And this is so marked, that even in the left hander that is using the right hemisphere in daily life to manipulate tools with their left hand.

Their groundbreaking technology records the EEG, or the electrical activity of the brain, in real time, allowing us to watch the brain as it performs various functions and then detect even the slightest abnormality in any of these functions vision, attention, language, audition.

I essentially became an infant in a woman's body.

The right hemisphere doesn't have a voice.

Okay. Get ready.

learned that they could track blood flow to map non invasively where activity was going on in the human brain.

Seaweed is a rich source of iodine and selenium.

The genes are forced into producing all this myelin, all the fat to myelinate the brain.

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I wonder if they'll let me and Watson dissect your brain.

Not all species on our planet have brains, so if we want to know what the brain is for,

Well, you know, in effect, the boundary's really there, in a certain sense.

Sherri, be reasonable, will you? I left a top level meeting to come here.

Now you brainwashed Mindy?

You're liquefying whatever brains you have left.

And I said, Well (Clears throat) (Laughter)

If you had half a brain you'd be dangerous!

Into his brain nearly 20 years ago.

What information did you get? He wasn't gonna talk anyways.

But what it means to have a brain there is that, not only the big brain has to talk with the food, the food has to talk with the brain, because we have to learn actually how to talk to the brains.

So in the same way that we actually see the effects of video games on people's behavior, we can use brain imaging and look at the impact of video games on the brain, and we do find many changes, but the main changes are actually to the brain networks that control attention.

Have you got any brains in your head?

So this particular model is entirely self consistent because it's made itself so.

Finally, Mussa Ivaldi of Northwestern took a completely intact, independent lamprey eel brain.

I wanna know who's got the brains in the family.

That's really important.

Every time you read it or say it, you make another copy in your brain.

Now, maybe we want to treat it as metaphorical.

So something very important is going on here about keeping things apart from one another.

And then I came across a team at Harvard University that had taken one such advanced medical technology and finally applied it, instead of in brain research, towards diagnosing brain disorders in children.

You think the detail's there, but it isn't there.

So to make the experiment,

But the brain has more than a hundred musicians making music

Scientists have worked for years on trying to understand the human brain using techniques like EEG and FMRl, where we scan the brain from the outside.

And that is, why do we and other animals have brains?

Switch inside you.

There is evidence from neuroscience.