Greg Gage: How to control someone else's arm with your brain
Gregs Geidžs: Kā ar savām smadzenēm kontrolēt cita roku?
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
ka aprīkojums
universities and large institutions.
lielas universitātes un institūti.
to access the brain,
as a graduate student
to get access to these tools.
un piekļūtu šiem rīkiem.
because one out of five of us,
will have a neurological disorder.
ir kāda neiroloģiska kaite.
for these diseases.
what we should be doing
in the eduction process
so that in the future,
par neirobioloģiju, lai nākotnē
becoming a brain scientist.
par smadzeņu pētniekiem.
my lab mate Tim Marzullo and myself,
ar laboratorijas biedru Timu Marzullo,
this complex equipment that we have
ja nu mēs šo sarežģīto aparatūru
enough and affordable enough
vienkāršu un pieejamu,
or a high school student,
in the discovery of neuroscience.
neirobioloģijas apgūšanā.
a company called Backyard Brains
uzņēmumu Backyard Brains
and I brought some here tonight,
ko šodien esmu atvedis šurp,
(Applause)
(Aplausi)
to record from your brain.
es ierakstīšu no jūsu smadzenēm.
your arm for science,
I'm putting electrodes on your arm,
brain, what am I doing with your arm?
smadzenes, un ko es darīšu ar jūsu roku?
inside your brain right now.
ir ap 80 miljardiem neironu.
back and forth, and chemical messages.
signālus uz visām pusēm.
right here in your motor cortex
when you move your arm like this.
across your corpus callosum,
to your lower motor neuron
uz apakšējo kustību neironu
is going to be picked up
is going to be doing.
what your brain sounds like?
kā izklausās jūsu smadzenes?
So go ahead and squeeze your hand.
Tagad pakustiniet roku.
happening right here.
that are happening
kas šeit aktivizējas
out to her muscle right here,
that's happening here.
and try to see one of them.
un ieraudzīt vienu no tām.
happening right now inside of your brain.
kas pašlaik norisinās jūsu smadzenēs.
but let's get it better.
down to your muscles right here.
uz jūsu muskuļiem šeit.
a signal down to your muscles.
uz jūsu muskuļiem.
a nerve that's right here
these three fingers,
un inervē šos trīs pirkstus,
that we might be able
going out to your hand
kas iziet no jūsu rokas,
when your brain tells your hand to move.
smadzenes liks jūsu rokai kustēties.
your free will
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 --
lai jūs sajustu...
a little bit weird at first,
(Laughter)
(Smiekli)
and someone else becomes your agent,
un kāds cits pārņem jūsu ķemeni,
so go ahead and give it a squeeze.
tāpēc droši sakļaujiet.
and turn your hand.
un tagad pakustiniet roku.
MG: Nope.
M.G.: Nemaz.
MG: A little bit.
M.G.: Mazliet.
and it's also controlling his arm,
un kontrolē arī viņa roku,
if I took over my control of your hand?
kontroli pār jūsu roku?
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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