2011 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures - Meet Your Brain. (Part 3 of 3) PDTVEnglish | AVI | H264 1689 kbps 25 fps | 720x480 | MP3 128 kbps 44 KHz | 58mns | 705 MB
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Bruce Hood a Canadian experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscience also the Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Center (United Kingdom) Presents
2011 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures Meet Your Brain Part 3'
In the third and final part of this fun episodic lecture Bruce Hood demon straits in a warm friendly manner how people try to figure out what other people are thinking starts of with some cute baby chickens , Bruce explaining how it takes us much longer to reach maturity and become independent than animals, and this is because our brains have so much social learning to do and how we learn to recognize each others faces and how we communicate with facial expressions.
Bruce talks about and emotions like disgust, and demon straits how we experience pain when seeing someone else experiencing pain and how we give inanimate objects human properties and talks about mirror neurons - (check out excellent videos of V S Ramachandran on popular video hosting site an expert on is this subject and I think is excellent viewing.)
We have a dancing parrot and a pirate and billy the kid doing magic illusion tricks al plus a self aware Elephant also Dolphins Chimpanzees and Orangutangs + other similar animals have a sense a self awareness. then he talks about the electronic social communication revolution. Could a robot ever feel empathy* He talks to a cute charismatic little walking talking robot and how we should all try and get along with all the seven billion people with are social brains.
Goodnight and look after your brain.