What we do not know about our brains
A Life / / December 19, 2019
It is surprising that we know so much about our planet, history and the natural environment, and know almost nothing about the main instrument through which we experience the world - the brain. And if this claim even the scientists, what to speak of ordinary people. The topic on Quora neuroscientists, psychologists and researchers shared interesting facts about the brain, which lift the veil of mystery and let us know a little more about themselves.
Many more people can boast that they know how to burn belly fat than those who know why our brain stores information. Therefore, if you want to be one of those who understand how our main tool, read on.
How the brain relates to interruptions in the work
Fascinated by the work we do breaks only when tired so that we can not continue to work on. The study, conducted in 2010, suggest that we are doing wrong.
Ariel Tambini with colleagues brain performance was evaluated in processing and storage of information. In terms of biology, the process is due to the hippocampus, which sends the information to the neocortex, where it is stored. The researchers found that after prolonged use brain can not carry out this task as effectively once again proved the importance of small interruptions.
Another interesting study It was conducted in 1993. It turned out that the outstanding violinists takes about the same amount of time every day as regular musicians. However, in contrast to the mediocre violinists, their more successful colleagues divide their classes at intervals of 60-90 minutes. Between lessons they rest, have fun, or even sleep.
How science can control man
Perhaps this is a good thing that we know about the brain so little. One who can control the brain of other people get as much control over the world. While this sounds crazy mad scientist in a cap of foil, but small steps in the people management side of things for a long time.
For example, try to carry out this simple test:
Birthday message category of words (colors, numbers, equipment) and ask a friend to try to guess the category, calling random words. If he gets to the point, saying: "Well done, excellent!". If not, just keep quiet.
After some time, your friend will be called the word only you zagadannoy category. Why?
You were awarded it for the correct answer and "punished" for an invalid. This is an excellent example of how the operant conditioning. This term refers to pushing people to a goal using the methods of reward and punishment, universal for the members of this group, that is for the people.
There is another great example of operant conditioning - the social network. Facebook, "In contact with", Quora - they encourage users the same way - huskies, making us dependent. And this is only the beginning.
Electric shocks and productivity
Scientists from the University of New Mexico have gone even further in the desire to make our brains more efficiently. they spent experimentBy which we found that easy discharge current directed to the human skull, and improves the passage of certain experimental test more than twice. Within a certain time (15 to 20 min) was fed to the scientists cortex investigated small current discharge 2 milliamps. Improved performance actually took place, and the test subjects could not clearly explain why began to pass the test much better.
I was at the same time very interesting and scary to think about what we do not know about his own brain. Do you think if we can properly dispose of the acquired knowledge?