A video about brains, made by brains, and watched by brains.

@uratune8027

7 жыл бұрын

My Delicious Morsel our brains are learning about themselves

@uratune8027

7 жыл бұрын

My Delicious Morsel mind blown

@noah_lot2842

7 жыл бұрын

Neptus TV no, brain blown

@uratune8027

7 жыл бұрын

Nicole Barajas OhShitWaddap

@Synodalian

7 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the meta-brain.

I love brains. They're so complicated and we know so little about them. I'm excited to see what we'll discover about brains in the next 50 years that I'm alive. We're only just starting out on what I'm sure will be an incredible explosion of knowledge about the brain.

@josephfox9221

7 жыл бұрын

the brain is egocentric. Stupid Brains

@samimas4343

7 жыл бұрын

Byron Hart and it is delicious

@khorps4756

7 жыл бұрын

+Sami Mas I can confirm, as a cannibal, brains are delicious

@TorquemadaTwist

7 жыл бұрын

+Khorps That is disgusting and wrong. Unless you are a zombie. Then I understand that is a part of your culture.

@khorps4756

7 жыл бұрын

Bruce Dunn stop oppressing me you bigot

This is why I love neuroscience.

@25987489

6 жыл бұрын

Neuroscience loves you too.

@dreamerrp

3 жыл бұрын

Me too 😃

@Raccon_Detective.

2 жыл бұрын

Same!

@charmaci

9 ай бұрын

Of course the brain loves the people who study it

@jquick85

9 ай бұрын

@@charmaci haha! The brain’s so biased to itself!

I DID A PROJECT LAST YEAR FOR MY SCIENCE CLASS CALLED "THE SCIENCE BEHIND IMAGINATION AND CREATIVITY" AND MY TEACHER ACTUALLY ENDED UP CALLING MY MOM TO TELL HER HOW AWESOME IT WAS Edit: sorry bout the yelling, I was an eighth-grader with no self control. I’m graduated now lol

@Quon

3 жыл бұрын

Pls dont yell at us

@wendysslave1965

3 жыл бұрын

WHY ARE YOU TYPING LIKE THIS

@sushidrawssushi8338

3 жыл бұрын

don't yell... quq but I'm glad congrats!

@gslle65

3 жыл бұрын

the caps are cool, whatever

@Lina-dc2pi

3 жыл бұрын

@@Quon omg really?? I have the same project tomorrow !😅

i wonder what does a person born blind imagine about

@PortalStorm4000

7 жыл бұрын

boy638 I would believe they would use descriptions from others along with their other senses. However, I am not blind (still need glasses to see three feet infront of me though :) )

@amaliaisepciuc5887

6 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/iqSJuZupnZzdqNY.html You should check this out! It's a video with a blind man explaining what he dreams about.

@malihachowdhury7323

3 жыл бұрын

What sight must sound like.

@TheTejender23

3 жыл бұрын

If someone who is blind from birth due to structural difference or damage in Primary Visual Cortex (V1, which is the visual sensory area of brain) then that person will not have any vision at all. They wouldn't even have visions in their dreams.

@Asmaa_311

3 жыл бұрын

Or in which language does a person born deaf think

This channel never fails to impress me.

@maielshamy8233

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

So that's what happened in Pen Pineapple Apple Pen.

@kitchensink6000

7 жыл бұрын

Sur Sr You must of not been listening :)

@patbrown5833

7 жыл бұрын

shut the fuck up

@minakshir6

3 жыл бұрын

Lol 😂

is that why it's hard to imagine an alien creature that doesn't have features like a terrestrial creature or doesn't look like a terrestrial creature?

@igb5551

7 жыл бұрын

Good point.. If we've never seen anything like that before, we can't imagine it. The same happens when we try to imagine a 4th dimension, we're not able to create anything that we could not see with our eyes, right??

@benjaminwilde152

7 жыл бұрын

@Hey Imagination - by definition - is the cognitive process that creates new images and projects based on previous experiences. So you're mostly right, but from what I know there are other factors as well that stop us from experiencing a 4th dimension.

@kaja9804

7 жыл бұрын

Hey, that's very interesting. As an artist I think I can agree, even the most "creative" pieces of art seem to be a complex collage of things you have seen before. It seems simply impossible to draw somethings you have never seen in the slightest. Even though I never have seen a dragon, I can draw one based of wing structures and reptiles I'm familiar with, but I'd never be able to draw a flower like a bee sees it, I may be able to recreate the viewing angle, but I could never draw the flower with acruate ultra violet.

@igb5551

7 жыл бұрын

Oh thank you for the response, and what are those factors?? I have to search more information about this, it's so intriguing.

@igb5551

7 жыл бұрын

Kameko Dai yeah, that was exactly what I meant! I've always loved drawing too and I love imagining things, but I kind of realized that they are never entirely new, they're just variations and combinations of things... I don't know.

I absolutely loved the animation. It's strange but it has character, simplicity and it does a perfect job illustrating the narrative.

The music for this was gorgeous.

@informationparadox387

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah , really!...it was amazing!

@larissakwok4439

3 жыл бұрын

Omggg i was getting coraline circus vibes from the music

@m3ronnn

3 жыл бұрын

@@larissakwok4439 righttt

I have ADHD, so my imagination can go a little wild at times, but I've always pictured it as a third eye.

@btsarmy-cw2nc

3 жыл бұрын

Adhd what?

@jvmeel7454

3 жыл бұрын

And then there is me... with maladaptive daydreaming

@prxnceanime6335

3 жыл бұрын

@@jvmeel7454 yeah man😂 It sucks Its like i cant even turn it off I have to be playing games and keep myself sometimes to shut it off

@nutanddash8552

2 жыл бұрын

@@btsarmy-cw2nc google it

@btsarmy-cw2nc

2 жыл бұрын

@@TrekkieTardis armiiiii

It's so weird, I have a hard time retaining anything I learn about the brain or thought, because while the information keeps coming I'm thinking too much about my very process of thinking.

@Mizraab2912

3 жыл бұрын

Metacognition interfering with cognition....not a drawback man...thats highly cool!

@seeexy

2 жыл бұрын

yeah i does that all the time. which is like, some1 is accessing another tab while im in the midst of fhe 1st tab in front of me. and it hinders my.. engagement of the current reality. in other words, ADHD like.

@melparadise7378

2 жыл бұрын

@@seeexy It's like having a super power. Diversifying ourselves is probably an evolutionary adaptation for survival. that's, like, entropy, right? We're IT.

"Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known." - Napoleon Hill

Is this why I can imagine love even though I'm lonely

@youngbrandwild1025

2 жыл бұрын

Are u still lonly?I Bett u are not lonly anymore

@Kutsushita_yukino

2 ай бұрын

jesus why u gotta say that dude 💀

Sometimes I feel like other people can see vivid, clear pictures when they imagine things.. is it just me who only 'sees' abstract thoughts and kind-of exsisting images??

@ashfaqahmed9372

4 жыл бұрын

Same here. I can’t see vivid images

@KangKush

3 жыл бұрын

It’s probably because you don’t do it often, if you are a chronic daydreamer you’re imagination imagery is more clear and vivid and not all over the place

@cicatrixnictophilii

3 жыл бұрын

I cannot see anything at all... In the beginning of the video he started creating sceens and say it's so easy to imagine them.. And I'm like, no it is not. I have afantasia or some bulshit like that. I would really like to know whats wrong with my brain, because I try so hard to imagine things and fail.

@Elizabeth-nn7mt

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I get what you're saying. I can *think* images in my mind, like I know how this thing looks but I can't *see* it. I can *think* of a pineapple being balanced on a dolphin's nose but I can't *see* it (in minds supposed eye??)

@fashionbecomesher1665

2 жыл бұрын

Thats called aphantasia. It means not being able to visualize. There are a lot of videos on aphantasia.

The brain is truly amazing. Everything about it truly leaves me in awe.

I’ve lived in my head most of the time for a long time and over time I’ve been able to make an entire fictional world. It functions exactly like this one but with different people (people I’ve created in my head). This way I can escape from life. Problem is I’m unable to use my senses while I’m fully focused on that world… it takes a lot to snap me out of it before my mind lets me out on its own. My mind releases me back into reality once the trigger or stressor is gone. I started this as a kid to numb the pain of physical abuse. It worked. It took a lot of pain for me to notice it.

@user-xz8jz9kb9b

9 ай бұрын

Oh, I understand you. I was alone when I was a child and my brain created that imaginary friends, with whom I had conversations inside of my head. I talked with them about everything and this became a habit that ruined my life. Even now, when I spend time with real friends I still have conversations with imaginary friends. And realizing this hurts so much

I don't even have to close my eyes to imagine. I can see them without seeing them?

I love these videos! They take me to a new world altogether. I have never learned about this in such vibrant colors!

I'm so baffled when ever I force my self to imagine it doesn't really work.

@linbb602

3 жыл бұрын

you might have aphantasia! that means that you cant see thing/imagine things in your head

All ping pong tables are in orbit around a black hole

I had an imagination that Ted-Ed released a new video, went to check and voila:

@tanxzero

7 жыл бұрын

NKD Piano Sheets hey I've seen u before. Ya know, ur youtube channel is so good. ur transcriptions and arrangements are very simple and cool.

@NKDpiano

7 жыл бұрын

Wow thank you so much ((:

So next time you dream in class you could just tell 'em about this?

@rpsyco

7 жыл бұрын

I don't think that would work too well in a History class.

@simba8926

7 жыл бұрын

Chopperdragon39 Or in any other class, for that matter :)

@halloooo1duuuuu

6 жыл бұрын

Your teacher would be pretty impressed if you explained to him why your brain is able to dream in class :D

@galaxy9310

4 жыл бұрын

Probably will work better in a psychology class.

had to pause “i may destroy you” to see if this was a real video. i’ll check the rest of this video out later

Love me some Ted Ed! All of your videos are so intriguing and unique. They are works of art and masterpieces of knowledge. Thank you for creating such amazing videos.

BEAUTIFUL animation! What a blast!

@blankwyry9725

7 жыл бұрын

Ewa Fabian (Sarcasam intensefies)

@ewafabian5521

7 жыл бұрын

BlankWyry I LOVE it! Truly. It fits a modern art gallery more than the video but it is great art, if you ask me.

@blankwyry9725

7 жыл бұрын

Ewa Fabian I guess everybody has a different taste or style(however u gonna call it)

@ewafabian5521

7 жыл бұрын

BlankWyry U never know what the huge audience will like, in times of the Internet. I think the artist put a lot of effort into it, it is clearly visible :)

@blankwyry9725

7 жыл бұрын

I agree with you,although it is not my preffered style :)

This animation style hurts my eyes, but I can sacrifice them if its for Ted-Ed :)

@joelburleson2449

7 жыл бұрын

Snowcold ikr

@lian_boo

7 жыл бұрын

Snowcold me2

@sursr2820

7 жыл бұрын

True. The headache was worth it.

@RagerQueen

7 жыл бұрын

i'm migraine prone but I didn't have any problems with this video. is it the constant flashing?

@davidbrick1260

7 жыл бұрын

I need to know where this music is!!!

Interesting! I get the neuron ensembles with more than objects... when I read a book, I'll remember the scene my brain conjured months, years after reading it. In fact, I was reminded of such an image the other day, and was trying to remember where I'd seen it... then I remembered, it was of my own invention, from a book I'd read a year ago.

What a great era are we living, where you have almost ALL mankind knowledge easily displayed and explained in free platforms at any time. This could be the years of the "second discovery of fire".

Very interesting to learn how creativity and thickness of myelin is some how connected, even though it’s a theory, and much more to learn..

Very informative and interesting video! I've wanted to know about the neuroscience of imagination for a long time!

I'm working on a project for school, this got me ahead. Thank you very much!

Hey Ted Ed, I really love the Videos you guys produce :) I've got one question: How do you explain the imagination hypothesis when dreaming? It is known that the prefrontal cortex is not active during dreaming, but there sure are imaginations or at least visual things u 'see' when you are dreaming. But when the prefrontal cortex is not active there should not be a connection between neurons and it... thanks in advance and greetings from germany :)

Your accent is SOOOO relaxing and so calm

@anaisamyharris

7 жыл бұрын

MC Paws IKR

Omg the french duck saying "cuac" killed me XD

This reminds me of a song by Amy Lee from Evanescence she just released called "dream too much", which is filled with ramblings of his two year old son, revealing the most vivid and fun imagination of a child ♥

@heitor27mb

7 жыл бұрын

Nirvana- Aneursm

I got a new perspective and learnt something new😁 Thanks🙌

Oh! I'd love to see a video on Misophonia or sound sensitivity!

the animation is beautiful

Too good. Very informative.

this helped me so much!

Thanks for posting this. I'm putting together a livestream on research showing the importance of imagination (and play) and will mention this video.

Yay I love watching videos that have just been posted!! 😄😄

did you know some people can't imagine like can't see what they imagine

@rentok8195

4 жыл бұрын

My imagination is close to useless to be honest

@lotus9138

3 жыл бұрын

yeah is called aphantasia i have it

@kannakye9359

3 жыл бұрын

I have aphantasia! I was looking for a comment like this

this is such a cute video love the music and the flickering pictures

ПОТРЯСАЮЩЕ! СПАСИБО! Сложнейший перевод увивительно полезного материала) Развивайте мозги и воображение В ДЕТСТВЕ! )

@homognitor3378

Жыл бұрын

А если уже поздно?)

I really liked the music in this!

i have a dolphin, i have pineapple uuuh imagination

@ruthianacorpuz

7 жыл бұрын

cool.

@flaggkatten

7 жыл бұрын

Арсен Карабаев this comment 😂👌

@xtan__000

5 жыл бұрын

Nice one lol

@lulanm9000

4 жыл бұрын

Best comment ever. Hands down.

@nafisahoque760

3 жыл бұрын

Ppap I see what u did there

What’s interesting is people who have smaller prefrontal cortexes as a result of neurology have amazing imaginations!

So how does it work/not work if you have aphantasia? This is super interesting, but I want to know why it doesn't work in my brain.

I wonder if we can increase the thickness of thinner myelins, so we can have faster thought processing. Like say, do neuro games in crease myelin strength or simply just widen our neural connections? Very fascinating subject!

@thenextshenanigantownandth4393

5 жыл бұрын

Iate reply, but I think they just increase are ability to put things together in a stronger way. meaning just are ability to imagine to different levels because the Merylin strength allows for more sync firings between ideas. So it would seem are imagination is determined partly by genetics, Childhood, and just brain chemistry. like intelligence is.

soundtrack fits really well

Heard the word "ensemble" in this video more times, than I heard in my whole life before that.

We can criticize humans about a lot of subject but not about our brain. He is quite amazing

@michalullemann1938

7 жыл бұрын

An Del your brain is a guy?

@khorps4756

7 жыл бұрын

WOAH WOAH WOAH, ARE YOU ASSUMING MY BRAIN'S GENDER?

@krissdevalnor5844

7 жыл бұрын

Khorps hahaha I thought my sentence in French and we put gender on object, I guess my brain needs more training

@khorps4756

7 жыл бұрын

An Del I hope you aren't from quebec otherwise fuck you, quebec can fuck itself

@krissdevalnor5844

7 жыл бұрын

Khorps Omg you must have a hurtful backstory with Quebec's people, I hope you will not become a Super villain Anyway I'm from Switzerland so I'm kinda in peace with everybody, Canadian or not

can you physically see the pictures in your head ? because I can't , I see to blurrily , I'm afraid I can't imagine things visually😣😣😣

@wandasykes6636

7 жыл бұрын

Liz smith Don't worry, you'll get it, just keep practicing. Btw drawing helps with this process.

@PartyTimeBitches

7 жыл бұрын

You might have Aphantasia. A small percentage of people have it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

@snapsnapdik

7 жыл бұрын

It's called being a woman.

@ashikkallan9534

7 жыл бұрын

Yes I can relate. I have a very bad imagination. It's always blurry.

@yey862

7 жыл бұрын

Liz smith i got the same thing too my brain sometimes can imagine things perfectly and sometimes not but i guess those kind of persons are not creative in real life because you need so much imainations to be creative right? but when it comes on dreaming im like watching a movie in HD while things are happening

"Pineapple"... Now I am imagining that Japanese guy dancing with a pineapple.

awesome movie! we all have to practice our imagination every day some more! 🙂🤘🏿

This is the first time I heard about multiple layers of myeline. Then, learn that the speed of chemical domino effect of "action potential" would increase with the thickness. My understanding was that the pulse was jumping between the node of xavier. The speed of transmission would be an exact multiple of these nodes. If a very long neuron body would be wrapped by just a few myeline/node of xavier length wise, it would transmit faster than any shorter one with more nodes. The other doubt about that hypothesis is that memory is assumed to build "locally" by the precise connection of neurons in relatively close proximity. The myelinated bundles would be high speed communication path between distant brain region. It is surprising that they would contribute to memory/learning by increasing the thickness of myeline layers.

The background music is really good

That's the most amazing thing I won't ever understand.

as if I am dreaming while watching this video.... just amazing

Neuroscience is by far my favourite branch of science

this was interesting thank you

I like the animation :3

Informative!

This is gold. Ive found this too late thats the only negative about it

This is mental!

I love this channel

Very informative

the animation is very good

The synapses connect different ideas in the brain to form a statement or a image

I like how we say perceive like we know what that is.

I've got a question, does imagination of different sounds also works out the same way?

did anyone have another videos about imagination like this ?

Myelin sheaths are very important, there are actually diseases called Demyelinating diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, which is characterized by destruction of myelin, some clinical manifestations include sensory symptoms, like paresthesias, hypesthesia, etc, reduced sensation, numbness, etc.

I'd really like to submit a czech subtitles for this video. Is there any chance you could allow submitting subtitles TED-Ed ?

Amazing video The animation, the music, I can't, really great job, phenomenal!

This topic of imagination, animation color and metronome music reminds me of Purple Haze.

the flute sound, its hard to hear, but its so good.

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” -Carl Sagan

@ImanAliHussein

7 жыл бұрын

So people with aphantasia (can't visualize) can't go nowhere?

@SquareWaveHeaven

7 жыл бұрын

They work with abstract representations instead of images. Our culture is predominantly visual, but other ways of synthesizing thought, and thus imagination, exist. Infinitely many probably.

whats the music in the background. its quirky and lovely..

Awesome

Imagining a dolpin next to a pineapple is different from imagining a pineapple on a dolphins nose. Is there a place in the brain where the 2 images are positioned in the right place? If so, what is it called? Loved this video :)

when he said " thousands of neurons in your posterior cortex fire." at 1:00 in the video when saying fire what does he mean by that? does the neurons rise up? move like molecules? or something else? sorry i'm not completely good at english

Does anyone know the name of the song in the first half

Dreaming is in relation with imagination. Comes from the same realm.

Well that explains why I was more creative as a kid (when I had access to TV shows) than as a teen (when I reduced TV time just to learn that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell).

I like how the brain can create its own simulations… Like computers, they can simulate events but they can’t see it in the real world. Like recently scientists have managed to make a quantum computer simulate an actual wormhole and proved that wormholes DO exist in real life.

thats my professor at BU!!!! he's brilliant

This theory that, to imagine things we never seen like the dolphin holding a pineapple, we fire both the neurons for the dolphin and for the pineapple, does not explain how we can imagine things that we *actually* have not seen, like if you try to make up an extraterrestrial creature in your mind.

@paoloricciuti

7 жыл бұрын

I think it's the same, we simply use different feature. We fir together Eyes+Green+Human+Baloon+ecc ecc

@5dashes

7 жыл бұрын

Nietez Dionísio It probably started with humans realizing the concept of self, and soon wondering about extraterrestrial beings, which then evolved bit by bit. The image that pops up in *your* mind is most definitely shaped by contemporary media, which portrays "aliens" as beings with green skin, black eyes etc.

@anniibunni

7 жыл бұрын

Actually it seems like the same principle. If you imagine an extraterrestial creature you will still use features known to your brain, just much smaller and a lot more parts. You will imagine its skin maybe snake-like, its eyes maybe like those of a bird or a fly, its feet like those of an alligator. It will still be things you have seen before. It's just like not being able to imagine a new colour. You will always use things familiar to your brain.

@Ceu.Noturno

7 жыл бұрын

You are missing the point. Humans have the capability of imagining things they have never seen or even had the slightest contact with, this is how we manage to think about abstract concepts for example, which many times can be very distant from reality and could not be explained by the firing of combinations of already existing connections of neurons in the brain.

@Ceu.Noturno

7 жыл бұрын

You ignored the "abstract concepts" part. Many are fruit of a lot of philosophical thinking and can be very distant from the physical reality.

I've loved this lesson, but the animation was kinda creepy..

Are neuronal ensembles for something different in every person, and if so, is there a pattern to how they differ? What about our memories?

I graduated pharmacy school in 1991. I learned where parts of the brain are and what a few of them do. Other than that, there is still little we know

It’s the ensemble the same or similar in different people from the same picture?

I absolutely love the art style

interesting conclusion

Is actual seeing in real-time, real-life and doing physical action more informative to the neuronal building or is just watching tV the same? Hands-on building Vs. passive intake?

any source for the music?

What's the background music called?