How brains see

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  • Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
  • At the micro-scale the brain is a mess; a thick tangle of nerve cells connected at synapses. Mapping just a tiny portion of this mess, a few hundred cells, is a huge challenge. You have to wonder if it's worth the effort. But seeing exactly how brain cells are wired together is giving us new insights into brain function. The researchers who made the 3D maps in this video discovered a new type of cell and worked out how insects see movement. If you've ever tried to swat a fly you'll know how good they are at sensing motion!
    Read about the three studies on our website: www.nature.com/...

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  • @BrandonWillWin
    @BrandonWillWin 9 років тому +80

    Curious how the human brain doesn't fully understand how it works

    • @wafikiri_
      @wafikiri_ 8 років тому +3

      +BrandonWillWin
      Not fully. But two years ago, I started to have a comprehensive understanding and since it has much developed. A handful of different, complementary views on the subject, two of which detail the "what" and "where" paths in depth, conceptually.. Unfortunately writing on it all is a much more formidable task for me. But I will get it somehow.

    • @ar_xiv
      @ar_xiv 8 років тому +2

      +BrandonWillWin Descartes wondered the same thing, and conceptually, we aren't that far ahead of him

    • @BrandonWillWin
      @BrandonWillWin 8 років тому

      +Pocari Sweat We can reasonably credit all of modern scientific methods to Descartes, and more so Bacon.

    • @luckyyuri
      @luckyyuri 8 років тому

      +BrandonWillWin without the aid of collective work with other brains, without computing machines and other instruments it's a logical impossibility. but i believe there will be humans in the future that will have the amazing chance of peering into their own inner workings. of course, the average mind cannot even keep up with current day scientific efforts.. so for the majority of us we will have to settle with oversimplified explanations. here's a very interesting aspect of the brain that most brains are capable of understanding. altho certain biases prevent it from happening - anywherein12seconds.tumblr.com/post/144388146011/is-our-skull-beyond-the-sky-look-around-you-is#notes

    • @MrChilledstep
      @MrChilledstep 7 років тому +12

      “If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.” - Ian Stewart

  • @jakkuwolfinsomnia8058
    @jakkuwolfinsomnia8058 9 років тому +49

    I came for more answers; but all I receive is more questions...

    • @daveywebb3930
      @daveywebb3930 8 років тому +23

      welcome to science...

    • @jakkuwolfinsomnia8058
      @jakkuwolfinsomnia8058 8 років тому +1

      +Davey Webb or does science welcome me? Lol I study Biochem which at first sounded easy but trying to understand everything is a Herculean task. 😛

    • @powerrainproductions9919
      @powerrainproductions9919 4 роки тому +1

      Same here.... The molecular process doesn't fit to me

    • @NBI.1
      @NBI.1 3 роки тому +1

      Have some DMT , you'll get all the answer's you need

  • @Bassotronics
    @Bassotronics 7 років тому +3

    What puzzles me too is how the Brain is capable of 'seeing' in 3D. The synapses must be either working faster or AT the speed of light in order to achieve such a thing. If not, everything would look 2D to us. And even more so, imagine if a person's brain processed information with a time delay of 5 seconds. It would be a paradox in itself. Imagine slapping a person on the cheek and then tying the person's hand so they can't move their hand after the event has happened. Would they see and feel everything the same since the brain process is just delayed by 5 seconds? The actual physical damage has occurred but their brain won't notice till 5 seconds later.

    • @pilotavery
      @pilotavery Рік тому +2

      The brain can see in 3d because we have 2 eyes. It's much slower than the speed of light. People have quarter of a second delay to pain when surprised

    • @pilotavery
      @pilotavery Рік тому +1

      Also when you chop off your hand you feel it 1/4 second later. The delay just isn't noticed. Like how your brain doesn't see your nose unless you wiggle it. It's hidden.

    • @Bassotronics
      @Bassotronics Рік тому +1

      @@pilotavery
      I’m not chopping my hand again, that’s for sure. Hurts like crazy and it’s hard to put it back.

  • @spaides5121
    @spaides5121 9 років тому +5

    Song track in this video is the song you hear on the free app called infection and infection 2

    • @AckzaTV
      @AckzaTV 9 років тому

      +Haydor Swagner i can never get cuba

    • @KuraSourTakanHour
      @KuraSourTakanHour 9 років тому

      +Haydor Swagner I thought it was Pandemic, but yes!

  • @especimen9917
    @especimen9917 Рік тому +1

    Connectomics! Great concept :)

  • @chuckmoment
    @chuckmoment 8 років тому +11

    Dont hug me im scared

    • @Danuxsy
      @Danuxsy 8 років тому

      then why u holding that big ass knife u lyin shit!!

  • @EugeneMMurray
    @EugeneMMurray 11 років тому +1

    Fantastic video!

  • @NatureVideoChannel
    @NatureVideoChannel  11 років тому

    Hi alexgmcm - the link should be working now. Sorry about that.

  • @eillo3060
    @eillo3060 9 років тому +1

    This is very interesting

  • @1t2t3t4t5t6t7
    @1t2t3t4t5t6t7 11 років тому +1

    hah, i might actually be the next generation of neuroscientists. Cant wait to start studying cognitive science this year =)

  • @Barsabus
    @Barsabus 10 років тому +1

    mind blowing

  • @Anonyminded
    @Anonyminded 10 років тому

    great stuff!

  • @XQuber
    @XQuber 11 років тому +1

    No, because the education system (as I recognise it in Germany) is not able to make students be interested in or even love science. In the elementary school, there are too little and too bad educated teachers which often get stressed with all these big classes - after finishing elementary school, ca. 97% of all students think of school as something bad which makes no fun. That's getting me angry all the time, because I know how wonderful it is to take part at knowledge! Poor children… :-/

  • @DanielCooper
    @DanielCooper 10 років тому

    Very neat video. I intend to search out this entire series in support of the +Coursera and +Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai #MOOC

  • @danielcanedo6933
    @danielcanedo6933 4 роки тому

    Brazil!

  • @monterreybeatz759
    @monterreybeatz759 8 років тому

    watch wile high

  • @alexgmcm
    @alexgmcm 11 років тому

    I start grad school in Neuroinformatics/Computational Neuroscience in a month... future neuroscientists unite! :P

  • @SuperRinocicorn
    @SuperRinocicorn 9 років тому

    Pretty sure the retina isn't part of the brain...?

    • @dawnhoran3353
      @dawnhoran3353 8 років тому +7

      The retina is part of the brain.

    • @ritalevi5051
      @ritalevi5051 8 років тому

      it's placement and light sensing abilities make it special, but it is brain

  • @ferhat0070
    @ferhat0070 10 років тому

    80.000.000

  • @inoland55
    @inoland55 9 років тому +1

    the last five videos I've watched had a British narrator. No offense to the Brits but damn does your accent get annoying real quick. They do come across more informative, though.

  • @aristotledude
    @aristotledude 11 років тому

    Nature? Really? Do you lack imagination? Are you trying to tell us that you know with an absolute certainty of this? Ironically, you seem to be assigning attributes of conscious choice what you claim to be random and impersonal.

  • @worldin2011
    @worldin2011 11 років тому

    Do you lie on yourself ?
    It will be the worst answer to say that my laptop's screen was designed by "the nature"? so what do you think about your eyes?!
    The science tells you how, but it will not tell you why or who.
    There is no religion in this, but a mind.

  • @laramy1232
    @laramy1232 8 років тому +12

    I'm high yo

    • @ha-zg3gp
      @ha-zg3gp 4 роки тому +1

      The brain doesn’t deteriorate from cannabis.

    • @99.99
      @99.99 3 роки тому +1

      Cannabis helps maintain a healthy brain! Wake and bake baby 😁

  • @controlspacetime
    @controlspacetime 11 років тому +3

    That is 20 years of human effort by a single person.
    30,000 / 6 hour of useful work per day = 5,000 days
    5,000 / 5 days per week = 1,000 weeks
    1,000 weeks / 50 useful weeks per year = 20 years

  • @grandexandi
    @grandexandi 9 років тому +3

    This is SO amazing, I love it! I just thought it was a little doubtful that a fly's neurotransmitters were divided into four types, responding to the four cardinal directions. I don't know why this feels weird to me. I'm not really questioning it, though. It just doesn't sound right to me.

  • @covicamu
    @covicamu 11 років тому +2

    It´s increible!!
    When you watch, neurons painted. The lessons about brains...
    It´s understandable :)

  • @leerman22
    @leerman22 11 років тому +1

    I bet improving the computer's algorithms would take less time than that.

  • @mustanglp50
    @mustanglp50 11 років тому +1

    lol am I the only one who was actually relieved by his textbooks using the words "may" when it comes to neurology ?

  • @othmantayachothman761
    @othmantayachothman761 7 років тому +2

    this is super amazing

  • @crazyhq270
    @crazyhq270 10 років тому +1

    explains nothing about how we see.

  • @gliseidazelayaran2228
    @gliseidazelayaran2228 10 років тому +2

    ....

  • @RJinthematrix
    @RJinthematrix 11 років тому +2

    simply amazing

  • @worldin2011
    @worldin2011 11 років тому +1

    For me, after this video .... there is a perfect creator.

  • @MrGlassnipples
    @MrGlassnipples 11 років тому +1

    That's like 3.4 years lol..

  • @Voldmosis
    @Voldmosis 10 років тому +2

    The music at the beginning was taken from a video game :) I wanna say it was back ops. But I'm having trouble pinning it down

    • @thane732
      @thane732 9 років тому +2

      You're probably thinking of "Infection", which is a rip off of "Plague Inc".

    • @3rdCanofSausageGravy
      @3rdCanofSausageGravy 9 років тому

      I heard it in some game on the App Store. It was called infection I think. Where you create a virus or disease.
      It took me forever to remember where I heard that song.

    • @hassi44
      @hassi44 9 років тому

      NoahTheJerySpringer It's called Pandemic!

  • @vanessawong9081
    @vanessawong9081 3 роки тому +1

    Hopefully one day we will crack the mystery of our brain!

    • @wafikiri_
      @wafikiri_ Рік тому

      I did! Simple and complex at the same time, but not so complex to understand after all. It helps if you have some sophomore-level maths.

  • @abovez83
    @abovez83 3 роки тому

    i dont understand

  • @vidushisingh4351
    @vidushisingh4351 Рік тому

    nice

  • @kensley94
    @kensley94 5 років тому +1

    Dude....where am I?

    • @ma2i485
      @ma2i485 5 років тому

      on UA-cam

  • @ManSeekingChrist
    @ManSeekingChrist 11 років тому

    we actually see through our third eye...

  • @singaporethomasgiam5608
    @singaporethomasgiam5608 10 років тому

    How brains see

  • @MG30001
    @MG30001 11 років тому

    I was relying to the beauty of brains, not your laptop screen. Thought you ment some kind of god thingy by "a perfect creator".

  • @1t2t3t4t5t6t7
    @1t2t3t4t5t6t7 11 років тому

    I'm not religious, but, no. Don't be rude

  • @inoland55
    @inoland55 9 років тому

    the last five videos I've watched had a British narrator. No offense to the Brits but damn does your accent get annoying real quick. They do come across more informative, though.

  • @sg-km4hv
    @sg-km4hv 4 роки тому

    There is no direct connection s between two far away neurons at first, that's why we have to find a link between two neurons to memorize their connection. Slow but successful. Or creating event memory that stimulate a neuron network for stronger connection.

  • @OrionB1498
    @OrionB1498 8 років тому

    Of course the Female Brain is very much different .
    Much less synapses and very few wiring to be mapped.

  • @vovoer
    @vovoer 5 років тому

    How to use your students to publish reserach by nature video.

  • @SO_DIGITAL
    @SO_DIGITAL 8 років тому

    ooh trippy

  • @Neura1net
    @Neura1net 11 років тому +3

    Amazing work and a great example of scientific collaboration. Let's get started mapping the human brain.

  • @alexgmcm
    @alexgmcm 11 років тому

    The nature link doesn't work for me?

  • @iSOisoleucine
    @iSOisoleucine 11 років тому

    This, THIS is why I read Nature.

  • @XQuber
    @XQuber 11 років тому

    That's unfortunately true. :'(

  • @ma2i485
    @ma2i485 5 років тому

    okay cool so uh how do brains see?

  • @amysterling
    @amysterling 11 років тому

    EyeWire!

  • @qng199gmailcom
    @qng199gmailcom 9 років тому

    Very new perspective

  • @MG30001
    @MG30001 11 років тому

    sure, NATURE.

  • @fernandovelazquezvelasco2764
    @fernandovelazquezvelasco2764 11 років тому

    great video

  • @evafrankenberg6510
    @evafrankenberg6510 10 років тому

    Cool

  • @Chelseakelley87
    @Chelseakelley87 7 років тому

    wow

  • @XQuber
    @XQuber 11 років тому

    Why the fuck has this Video only got 26000 views???

    • @fitnesspoint2006
      @fitnesspoint2006 5 років тому

      Cus people have other interests and careers you dumb fucktard

  • @AckzaTV
    @AckzaTV 9 років тому +1

    The Game is called EyeWire: eyewire.org/
    Play EyeWire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab at MIT.

  • @fitnesspoint2006
    @fitnesspoint2006 5 років тому

    Whats up with the contrived goofy sounding brit accent in all these nature vids?!

  • @MeachamLearning
    @MeachamLearning 5 років тому

    It's very interesting. One little nitpick - the "fruit fly" they show is clearly a honey bee.

    • @zanecosgrove4820
      @zanecosgrove4820 4 роки тому

      No, that's clearly a fruit fly... not sure how you can confuse that with a honey bee
      whyfiles.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/fruitfly_on_leaf.jpg

  • @DickHolman
    @DickHolman 11 років тому

    Unfortunately, many seem to prefer ignorance.