Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain

Brainscapes: “Human brain is a collection of maps - detailed representations, of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to our survival. They shape our experience of the world, support complex thought, and make technology-enabled mind reading a modern-day reality .” Interview with Dr Rebecca Schwarzlose, neuroscientist and author.

Topics discussed and timeline

1.    Why Brain Maps are important? 2:00 min

2.    How our brain maps what we see? 4:00 min

3.     What’s the impact of impact of NOT seeing many faces, noses, lips, and facial expressions, on the development of infant brain maps in the pandemic years? 7:45 min

4.    Teenagers can hear sounds that their teacher can’t. 11:40 min

5.    Why we lose the ability to hear certain sounds as we grow older 12:30 min

6.    How are Bitter, Sweet, Salty tastes mapped in the brain? 15:30, 16:30 min

7.    Baby in the womb has information about the outside world already etched into its brain. 23:10 min

8.    What should parents do in the first couple of years of an infant’s life? 27:55 min

9.    Double decker bus blows a baby’s mind away 31:00 min

10. Brainscapes shape and distort the contents of your dreams, memories, and fantasies 34:15 min

11. False memories are very common 36:45 min

12. Brain computer interfaces, BCIs. 37:35 min

13. Scientists eavesdropped on a brain and reconstructed the specific human faces a subject is seeing, fairly accurately 38:45 min

14. Humans with electrodes in the brain - medical assistance 40:40 min

15. Brain activity monitoring general applications – 41:40 min

16. Big Tech and gathering our personal neural data – 42:50 min

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