Carl Schoonover:如何观察大脑内部

人类对大脑的理解已经取得了显著进展，但到底如何研究大脑里的神经元呢？神经科学家、TED Fellow Carl Schoonover 用华丽的图像向我们展示如何使用工具，看到大脑内部的景象。

研究显示 晕车与大脑有关 是中毒的自然反应

Traveling makes us feel sick because modern transport tricks the brain into thinking we have been poisoned, a neuroscientist has said. 一位神经系统科学家近日表示，现代交通工具会诱导大脑认为我们已经中毒，所以旅行常

如何清理杂绪，让大脑进入高效状态？

Sometimes we can get so caught up in the stress and worry of our personal lives that our minds become too jumbled to operate effectively. This is especially dangerous in a test taking situation. After hours of reading and studying, our brains can loc

TED演讲:能讲多种语言如何造福大脑(3)

Some of these are even visible, such as higher density of the grey matter 有些好处，甚至可以看得见，例如大脑灰白质的密度增加， that contains most of your brain's neurons and synapses, 那里包含了脑部大多数的神经元

TED演讲:为什么昆虫的大脑如此神奇(2)

But even though the insect brain is organized very differently from ours, there are some striking similarities. 虽然昆虫与人类大脑的组成大相径庭，但是仍有很多惊人的相似之处。 For example, most insects have smell detecto

为什么要读名著：阅读经典名著能锻炼大脑！

He wrote that the human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants. And it appears that simply reading those words by William Wordsworth prove his point. 英国诗人威廉华兹华斯曾写道：人的心灵，

TED演讲:我们的大脑是如何交流的?(6)

And we think that this alignment is necessary for communication. 我们认为有效沟通必须有这样的较准。 For example, as you can tell, I am not a native English speaker. 举个例子，你们都听得出来英语并不是我的母语。 I

TED演讲:我们的大脑是如何交流的?(9)

This one sentence before the story started was enough to make the brain responses 故事开始前的一句话就足以决定大脑的反应， of all the people that believed the wife was having an affair 所有相信妻子不忠的人， to be very

TED演讲:我们的大脑是如何交流的?(7)

Now, let's take all this information together and ask: 现在，综合以上所有信息，我们要问一个问题： How can we use it to transmit a memory that I have from my brain to your brains? 我们该如何利用它，把我大脑中的记忆传

TED演讲:我们的大脑是如何交流的?(4)

So to test it, we did the following experiment. First, we took the story and played it backwards. 我们用以下的实验来测试。我们先将故事倒过来播放， And that preserved many of the original auditory features, but removed the mean

TED演讲:我们的大脑是如何交流的?(3)

So I'm banging out my story and I know it's good, and then I start to make it -- 我大声说出我的故事，我知道很好笑，为了让故事... Suddenly, you can see that the responses in all of the subjects lock to the story, 突然间，所有

TED演讲:我们的大脑是如何交流的?(2)

So I'm banging out my story and I know it's good, 我要大声地说出我的故事，我知道很好笑 and then I start to make it better - by adding an element of embellishment. 为了让故事更生动我会加点油、添点醋， Reporters call

陈天桥夫妇捐资美国大脑研究

A billionaire couple who pioneered internet games in China are donating $115m to the California Institute of Technology for brain research in an effort to help humans accept mortality. 身为中国互联网游戏先驱的一对亿万富豪夫妇向加州

肥胖有损大脑,运动修复智力

Obesity may have harmful effects on the brain, and exercise may counteract many of those negative effects, according to sophisticated new neurological experiments with mice, even when the animals do not lose much weight. While it's impossible to know

Gero Miesenboeck:改造大脑

在探索测绘大脑的过程中，很多科学家都尝试过记录每个神经元的活动这项异常艰巨的任务。Gero Miesenboeck 反其道而行之， 他控制一些特定的神经元来搞清楚它们到底是起什么作用的，他通过

阿里尔·加滕:大脑扫描器带你了解自己

想象你在玩一个由意识控制的游戏，同时这个游戏可以显示你自己的压力、放松程度以及注意力的模式。在TEDx多伦多大会上，阿里尔加滕向我们展示了观看大脑内部的活动是如何给一个古语了

脸书分享控为什么停不下来？原因在大脑

We all have those friends, often they are mere acquaintances. 我们都有这样的朋友，他们一般只是点头之交。 Those people whose lives are played out on social media, every cough and spit of their intimate relationships littering your

8种补脑食物 打造健康黄金大脑

Weve all heard the adage, You are what you eat. But theres a real connection between the food we consume and the functionality of our brains. In The Healthy Mind Cookbook, chef, nutritionist and author Rebecca Katz reveals the top eight brain-boostin

TED演讲:恋爱中的大脑(3)

I would also like to tell the world that animals love. 我还想分享一下关于动物爱情的故事。 There's not an animal on this planet 世界上任何一种动物 that will copulate with anything that comes along. 都不会饥不择食地寻找

【英音模仿秀】大脑触电

模仿文本： Brandy, speaking there, had suffered from a severe depression resistant to all previous forms of treatment. So had Andrea, whom you heard before her. John, by contrast, has a quite different illness, Parkinson's disease. But all three