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How Watching and Doing are Connected in the Brain
03:22 - 14:38 (11:16)
Scientists have found that the same part of the brain is functioning when watching and doing a task in monkeys. In humans, we use FMRI to understand what's happening in the brain through blood flow, but more data is needed for individual neuron analysis.
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Scientists have discovered that the same parts of the brain activate when we watch someone perform a task as when we perform the same task ourselves.
03:22 - 11:05 (07:43)
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Scientists have discovered that the same parts of the brain activate when we watch someone perform a task as when we perform the same task ourselves. This explains how observing others can help us learn and build skills, a technique that has been used for centuries to learn new abilities.
ChapterHow Watching and Doing are Connected in the Brain
Episode#223 - Fiona Murden - How Role Models Change Our Lives
PodcastModern Wisdom
The teenage brain is wired to be social, as in evolutionary terms, they had to be social to reproduce.
11:06 - 14:38 (03:32)
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The teenage brain is wired to be social, as in evolutionary terms, they had to be social to reproduce. Psychologists used to believe that the personality and brain were fixed after a certain age, but now new research has emerged.