Greg Gage: How to control someone else's arm with your brain
Greg Gage: Jak kontrolować cudzą rękę swoim mózgiem
TED Fellow Greg Gage helps kids investigate the neuroscience in their own backyards. Full bio
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are fascinated by the brain,
about how the brain works
neuroscience in schools.
why is that the equipment
universities and large institutions.
tylko duże uczelnie i instytucje.
to access the brain,
as a graduate student
na studiowanie neurobiologii
to get access to these tools.
because one out of five of us,
will have a neurological disorder.
z powodu zaburzeń neurologicznych.
for these diseases.
what we should be doing
in the eduction process
so that in the future,
poważnie brały pod uwagę
becoming a brain scientist.
my lab mate Tim Marzullo and myself,
this complex equipment that we have
sprzęt do badań mózgu
enough and affordable enough
or a high school student,
in the discovery of neuroscience.
i brać udział w jej rozwoju.
a company called Backyard Brains
o nazwie Mózgi z podwórka.
and I brought some here tonight,
do samodzielnego składania,
(Applause)
to record from your brain.
Będziemy dziś nagrywać twój mózg.
your arm for science,
I'm putting electrodes on your arm,
brain, what am I doing with your arm?
inside your brain right now.
80 miliardów neuronów.
back and forth, and chemical messages.
impulsów elektrycznych i chemicznych.
right here in your motor cortex
w korze ruchowej
when you move your arm like this.
kiedy poruszysz ręką - o tak.
across your corpus callosum,
ciała modzelowatego,
to your lower motor neuron
is going to be picked up
is going to be doing.
what your brain sounds like?
So go ahead and squeeze your hand.
happening right here.
od rdzenia kręgowego
that are happening
out to her muscle right here,
that's happening here.
i spróbować się jej przyjrzeć.
and try to see one of them.
happening right now inside of your brain.
który właśnie trwa w mózgu.
but let's get it better.
down to your muscles right here.
a signal down to your muscles.
a nerve that's right here
these three fingers,
i unerwia te trzy palce,
that we might be able
going out to your hand
przechodzące do twojej ręki
when your brain tells your hand to move.
gdy jej mózg tak rozkaże.
your free will
ona odbierze ci wolną wolę.
any control over this hand.
and we're going to plug it in
to squeeze your hand again.
over here so that you get the --
a little bit weird at first,
(Laughter)
and someone else becomes your agent,
i ktoś cię kontroluje,
so go ahead and give it a squeeze.
and turn your hand.
MG: Nope.
MG: Nie.
MG: A little bit.
MG: Odrobinę.
and it's also controlling his arm,
ale również i jego rękę,
if I took over my control of your hand?
kontrolę nad twoją ręką?
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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