Greg Gage: How to control someone else's arm with your brain
Грег Гейдж: Как да контролираш чужда ръка с мислите си
TED Fellow Greg Gage helps kids investigate the neuroscience in their own backyards. Full bio
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are fascinated by the brain,
да са запленени от него,
как работи, защото
about how the brain works
neuroscience in schools.
why is that the equipment
universities and large institutions.
в големите университети и институции.
to access the brain,
да му посветиш живота си
as a graduate student
шест години и половина,
to get access to these tools.
с достъп до тези инструменти.
because one out of five of us,
всеки пети от нас,
will have a neurological disorder.
ще има неврологично разстройство.
for these diseases.
what we should be doing
in the eduction process
so that in the future,
на учениците, за да може в бъдеще
becoming a brain scientist.
да станат невролози.
аз и моят колега лаборант Тим Марзуло
my lab mate Tim Marzullo and myself,
this complex equipment that we have
сложното оборудване, което ползваме
enough and affordable enough
достатъчно просто и достъпно,
or a high school student,
дори аматьор или гимназиален ученик,
in the discovery of neuroscience.
в откритията на неврологията.
a company called Backyard Brains
компанията "Backyard Brains"
and I brought some here tonight,
част от което донесох тук тази вечер,
(Applause)
(Ръкопляскане)
to record from your brain.
ще записвам от мозъка ти.
your arm for science,
ръката си за науката,
I'm putting electrodes on your arm,
поставям електроди на ръката ти.
от мозъка ти - какво правя с ръката ти?
brain, what am I doing with your arm?
около 80 милиарда неврона.
inside your brain right now.
back and forth, and chemical messages.
електронни, както и химически сигнали.
right here in your motor cortex
точно тук в моторната ти кора,
when you move your arm like this.
когато движиш ръката си ето така.
across your corpus callosum,
долните моторни неврони,
to your lower motor neuron
is going to be picked up
is going to be doing.
what your brain sounds like?
Започни, като свиеш ръка.
So go ahead and squeeze your hand.
happening right here.
that are happening
които се изпращат
до мускула ѝ точно тук,
out to her muscle right here,
която се образува.
that's happening here.
and try to see one of them.
случващо се в мозъка ти в момента.
happening right now inside of your brain.
but let's get it better.
down to your muscles right here.
сигнал до мускула ти тук.
a signal down to your muscles.
да изпрати сигнал до мускулите.
a nerve that's right here
these three fingers,
и стимулира тези три пръста.
that we might be able
и това, което можем да направим,
going out to your hand
постъпващи в твоята ръка,
when your brain tells your hand to move.
твоят мозък каже на твоята да го направи.
your free will
тя ще отнеме свободната ти воля
any control over this hand.
да контролираш ръката си.
and we're going to plug it in
to squeeze your hand again.
over here so that you get the --
за да получиш сигнала.
a little bit weird at first,
(Laughter)
(Смях)
and someone else becomes your agent,
и някой друг завземе тялото ти,
so go ahead and give it a squeeze.
така че давай, стисни.
and turn your hand.
така че, давай, стисни ръка.
MG: Nope.
МГ: Не.
МГ: Усещам леко.
MG: A little bit.
and it's also controlling his arm,
и твоята, и неговата ръка,
if I took over my control of your hand?
поема контрол над ръката ти?
such a good sport.
all across the world --
the neuro-revolution.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Greg Gage - NeuroscientistTED Fellow Greg Gage helps kids investigate the neuroscience in their own backyards.
Why you should listen
As half of Backyard Brains, neuroscientist and engineer Greg Gage builds the SpikerBox -- a small rig that helps kids understand the electrical impulses that control the nervous system. He's passionate about helping students understand (viscerally) how our brains and our neurons work, because, as he said onstage at TED2012, we still know very little about how the brain works -- and we need to start inspiring kids early to want to know more.
Before becoming a neuroscientist, Gage worked as an electrical engineer making touchscreens. As he told the Huffington Post: "Scientific equipment in general is pretty expensive, but it's silly because before [getting my PhD in neuroscience] I was an electrical engineer, and you could see that you could make it yourself. So we started as a way to have fun, to show off to our colleagues, but we were also going into classrooms around that time and we thought, wouldn't it be cool if you could bring these gadgets with us so the stuff we were doing in advanced Ph.D. programs in neuroscience, you could also do in fifth grade?" His latest pieces of gear: the Roboroach, a cockroach fitted with an electric backpack that makes it turn on command, and BYB SmartScope, a smartphone-powered microscope.
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