Greg Gage: How to control someone else's arm with your brain
Greg Gage: Kako kontrolirati nečiju ruku vašim 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.
neuroznanosti u školi.
why is that the equipment
universities and large institutions.
sveučilištima i velikim institucijama.
to access the brain,
as a graduate student
diplomskog studija
to get access to these tools.
i dobijemo pristup tim alatima.
because one out of five of us,
da će svaka peta osoba ovdje,
will have a neurological disorder.
patiti od nekog neurološkog poremećaja.
for these diseases.
what we should be doing
in the eduction process
so that in the future,
kako bi se oni u budućnosti
becoming a brain scientist.
neuroznanstvenika.
my lab mate Tim Marzullo and myself,
laboratorijski partner Tim Marzullo,
this complex equipment that we have
enough and affordable enough
i učinimo dovoljno povoljnom
or a high school student,
in the discovery of neuroscience.
u otkriću neuroznanosti.
a company called Backyard Brains
smo tvrtku Backyard Brains.
and I brought some here tonight,
"uradi sam". Nešto od toga sam i donio.
(Applause)
(Pljesak)
to record from your brain.
your arm for science,
I'm putting electrodes on your arm,
brain, what am I doing with your arm?
upravo rekao da ću snimati vaš mozak.
inside your brain right now.
back and forth, and chemical messages.
električne i kemijske poruke.
right here in your motor cortex
u motoričkoj moždanoj kori
when you move your arm like this.
kada ovako pokrenete ruku.
across your corpus callosum,
to your lower motor neuron
do vaših donjih motoričkih neurona
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.
vaše motoričke jedinice.
that are happening
koje se manifestiraju
out to her muscle right here,
ovog njenog mišića.
that's happening here.
koji ovdje putuju.
and try to see one of them.
i vidjeti jednoga od njih.
happening right now inside of your brain.
koja se upravo sada odvija u vašem mozgu.
but let's get it better.
to učiniti zanimljivijim.
down to your muscles right here.
ovim dolje mišićima.
a signal down to your muscles.
a nerve that's right here
ovdje postoji živac
these three fingers,
oživčuje ova tri prsta,
that we might be able
ga možemo stimulirati.
going out to your hand
koji putuju u vašu ruku
when your brain tells your hand to move.
vaš mozak naloži vašoj ruci da se miče.
your free will
oduzeti vašu slobodu odlučivanja
any control over this hand.
nad ovom rukom.
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 netko drugi postane vaš izvršitelj,
so go ahead and give it a squeeze.
pa samo stisnite.
and turn your hand.
MG: Nope.
MG: Ne.
MG: A little bit.
MG: Malo.
and it's also controlling his arm,
a ujedno kontrolira i njegovu ruku.
if I took over my control of your hand?
kontrolu nad vašom rukom?
koji mora kontrolirati.
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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