Greg Gage: How to control someone else's arm with your brain
Greg Gejdž (Greg Gage): Kako da kontrolišete nečiju ruku svojim mozgom
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
jeste taj da se ona koristi
universities and large institutions.
i u velikim ustanovama.
to access the brain,
as a graduate student
kao postdiplomac
i dobili pristup ovim instrumentima.
to get access to these tools.
because one out of five of us,
will have a neurological disorder.
imati neurološki poremećaj.
for these diseases.
what we should be doing
in the eduction process
kroz obrazovni proces
so that in the future,
tako da u budućnosti
becoming a brain scientist.
stručnjaci za mozak.
iz laboratorije Tim Marculo i ja
my lab mate Tim Marzullo and myself,
this complex equipment that we have
ovu složenu opremu koju imamo
enough and affordable enough
dovoljno jednostavnom i pristupačnom
or a high school student,
in the discovery of neuroscience.
u otkrivanju neuronauka.
pod nazivom "Mozgovi iz dvorišta"
a company called Backyard Brains
and I brought some here tonight,
neuronaučnu opremu iz kućne radinosti
da vam demonstriram.
(Applause)
to record from your brain.
obaviću neka očitavanja vašeg mozga.
your arm for science,
I'm putting electrodes on your arm,
brain, what am I doing with your arm?
sa mozga, šta radim sa rukom?
inside your brain right now.
unutar svog mozga u ovom trenutku.
back and forth, and chemical messages.
napred i nazad.
right here in your motor cortex
ovde u motoričkom korteksu
when you move your arm like this.
kada ovako pomerite ruku.
across your corpus callosum,
preko kičmene moždine
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.
motoričke jedinice ovde.
that are happening
ka njenim mišićima ovde,
out to her muscle right here,
koja se odvija.
that's happening here.
da vidite neku od njih.
and try to see one of them.
koji se upravo dešava unutar vašeg mozga.
happening right now inside of your brain.
but let's get it better.
down to your muscles right here.
a signal down to your muscles.
ka vašim mišićima.
a nerve that's right here
these three fingers,
koji inerviše ova tri prsta
that we might be able
going out to your hand
koji idu ka vašoj ruci
kada mozak kaže vašoj ruci da se pomera.
when your brain tells your hand to move.
your free will
oduzeti slobodnu volju
any control over this hand.
nad ovom rukom.
and we're going to plug it in
to squeeze your hand again.
stisnete svoju ruku.
over here so that you get the --
tako da dobijete -
a little bit weird at first,
(Laughter)
and someone else becomes your agent,
i neko drugi postane vaš pokretač,
so go ahead and give it a squeeze.
zato hajde stisnite ruku.
and turn your hand.
pa hajde okrenite svoju ruku.
MG: Nope.
MG: Ne.
MG: A little bit.
MG: Pomalo.
and it's also controlling his arm,
a takođe kontroliše i njegovu,
if I took over my control of your hand?
preuzeo kontrolu nad vašom rukom?
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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