October 18, 2009

Reading Minds: How Your Brain Judges Other People’s Thoughts

Published in: Mind

A super cool video about how our brains work when it tries to understand other people’s thought processes. Rebecca Saxe from MIT reveals a pretty amazing discovery, which is that all people have a tiny region in their brains that’s responsible solely for judging other people’s thoughts.

Rebecca illustrates the growth of this region of the brain by studying it’s changes in children. From 3 years-old and onwards, we can see how this area of the brain develops and how their thought processes change.

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5 Responses to Reading Minds: How Your Brain Judges Other People’s Thoughts

katemarie54
October 20, 2009 | 6:47 am

stunning and unsettling, treading where angels fear to go?

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Mark Desreaux
October 20, 2009 | 5:48 pm

A very good web– site, a lot of information that is so very uesfull! I am enjoying reading these pages and will place them into my life.Thank-you for this most interesting overview.
Kind Regards ,
Mark Desreaux.

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kotesh
October 21, 2009 | 10:35 am

amazing discovery and very creative way of educating people, promise to follow the advice and will try to control the thoughts
regards,
kotesh

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IRENE DAIBO
October 24, 2009 | 1:38 pm

I TOTALLY ENJOYED THAT LECTURE. I WISH I COULD HAVE THE PDF REPORT OF IT TO HELP ME RE-READ. AWESOME

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Ijeva Bambridge
June 9, 2010 | 11:09 pm

This was an amazing video and gets me thinking!

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