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Neuroscientist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
WIRED has challenged neuroscientist Daphna Shohamy, PhD, to explain memory to 5 different people; a child, teen, a college student, a grad student and an expert. Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► Listen to the Get WIRED podcast ►► Want more WIRED? Get the magazine ►► Follow WIRED: Instagram ►► Twitter ►► Facebook…
Jakayima Batista
November 11, 2021 at 7:11 pm
nothin better than writing it as if it is done.
Jakayima Batista
November 11, 2021 at 7:11 pm
faith: knowing before
Jakayima Batista
November 11, 2021 at 7:12 pm
congratz
OÄKTA DOPBOK
November 11, 2021 at 7:12 pm
Blah blah blah. They don’t know anything about what memories are or how they are formed. All they can do is talk about the map – never the road.
Jakayima Batista
November 11, 2021 at 7:12 pm
sorry for the z
l
November 11, 2021 at 7:28 pm
Them talking about memories made me try to remember some things and most of the memories I remember are the most embarrasing thing I’ve done and this made me cringe at past me
Lauren
November 11, 2021 at 7:42 pm
Are you sure this lady is not a hypnotherapist? 👀
Nick Tinson
November 11, 2021 at 7:43 pm
No gonna lie, start getting lost after level 3 on my first watch lol.
Alvar Lagerlöf
November 11, 2021 at 8:00 pm
Do neurodiversity next please!
Bruhhh
November 11, 2021 at 8:31 pm
Someone plz give me Emma brown’s number or insta id ,,, I mean broo..
Jan
November 11, 2021 at 8:58 pm
Why do we teach our children materialism? Why do we say “memory is stored in the brain”. This is a reductionist claim! Yes, we can detect electric signals in EEGs, but we go beyond observation when we reduce memory to some brain process which, by observation, a c c o m p a n i e s our sensation of memory.
Harley Froment
November 11, 2021 at 9:04 pm
every time ive seen a picture of the hippocampus or amygdala it was basically a 2d version, i didnt realise there was 2 of them.
BoNk on the tronk
November 11, 2021 at 9:22 pm
Makes me want to learn a lot more about the pathways of our brain, great video and lovely people!
Zaivx
November 11, 2021 at 9:24 pm
Overly edited
Kartik Pradeepan
November 11, 2021 at 9:24 pm
As someone who is currently pursuing their PhD in Neuroscience, the comments make me so happy that there is so much fascination with the brain. I firmly believe that in the next 50 years, we’re really going to be pushing our understanding of it.
Zaivx
November 11, 2021 at 9:24 pm
Overly edited dialog, makes it sound so unreal
Tawpee
November 11, 2021 at 10:06 pm
3:38 That little girl is smarter than me. I already forgot about the hippocampus.
Jon Jon
November 11, 2021 at 11:13 pm
Brian A.
November 11, 2021 at 11:21 pm
This was fascinating and really well-edited. Thanks, Wired!
Uche Oji
November 11, 2021 at 11:40 pm
I only clicked on this because it had 16,118 views.
By the time you click it, it may have millions.
Christina Johnson
November 11, 2021 at 11:50 pm
Sometimes I wonder how I could possibly be the same person as the baby in the photo album 🤔 I think I’m just about due to have an existential crisis 🙃
Haidar
November 11, 2021 at 11:59 pm
Man her shoes are horrendous 🤣🤣🤣
gladitsnotme
November 12, 2021 at 12:12 am
This is fascinating to me. Medical and neuroscience is still in kindergarten, relatively speaking. We are just now exploring the why’s and how’s of bone marrow being linked to schizophrenia, organ transplant recipients suddenly craving the foods their donor loved, how memory and time are connected, etc.
fumblerooskie
November 12, 2021 at 12:32 am
Abigail is very very smart.
Ethan Schaefer
November 12, 2021 at 1:34 am
It’s crazy finding out how wrong your memories actually are, one thing I heard was that the more impactful memories are the most likely to be corrupted, that the more you pull out a memory the more likely it is to change over time. Dunno if that’s true or not
Chance Robinson
November 12, 2021 at 2:49 am
To expect to understand memory by examining brains, experiments, and research is like opening up a laptop and expecting to see your YouTube history.
Kitkat 240
November 12, 2021 at 3:48 am
Neuroscience is a bunch of Brains trying to understand Brains
HAMnPORK GAMER
November 12, 2021 at 4:46 pm
To brain or not to brain
Mary Rose Kent
November 12, 2021 at 3:50 am
Abigail is one smart cookie!
Mary Rose Kent
November 12, 2021 at 3:55 am
That college student has such horrible vocal fry!
flakitodiego
November 12, 2021 at 4:24 am
Is it me or that teen boy sounds like a girl. He probably did not went to puberty or he’s not a teenager 4:07
Shawn
November 12, 2021 at 4:29 am
what about the mandala effect??
or dejavú??
H
November 12, 2021 at 4:43 am
This bought my psyc degree back to life 🤣
thomas marley
November 12, 2021 at 5:00 am
Why was the seven year old basically just as smart as the teenager :00000
Carl Jay
November 12, 2021 at 5:41 am
I say that if we were all naturally allowed to memorise everything as we age, many will have been driven to suicide. You see, Nature knows the nature of man and his lofty hopes, dreams and goals, but life…is about contradicting and objecting to many of mankind’s outlandish accomplishments which to date, brought about Climate Change. And….then some.
Robert Schlesinger
November 12, 2021 at 5:48 am
Worthwhile video for college students.
Adrian Rocha
November 12, 2021 at 5:54 am
It’s interesting, I’ve actually been thinking about “mental models” for the past couple weeks. What is it that leads people to develop certain mental models? Is it simply having lived a certain life and being treated a certain way by the people around them? Do innate biological predispositions play any role in the final mental model that a person may develop? I believe there is a finite truth to everything and that there are horrible as well as wonderful people in the world. What if we could fully map the mental models of the best people in the world, would it then be possible to replicate those mental models in future people, through education, through cultural engineering? These are questions I’ve been thinking about the past couple weeks.
RiverNaiad
November 12, 2021 at 6:11 am
The last conversation makes it seem like they’re talking to Variants of each other.
AlexFoster2291
November 12, 2021 at 7:24 am
That editing, in the beginning, when the ‘expert’ mouths “increasing Complexity” missed my head up.
G VD
November 12, 2021 at 7:34 am
I’m a journalism student, and I haven’t taken biology in 6 years. I held on through college student, and then I started to learn with the last two. THIS IS SO COOL. I forgot how much I love bio. I wanted to study it so badly when I was a child, but I don’t have the stomach to cut things up
M Malafaia
November 12, 2021 at 8:11 am
my favorite part of this series is that by the end of level 5, you feel part of the conversation and pretend to be an expert. just nodding, saying “yes, i concur”
Jimmy Dean
November 12, 2021 at 10:56 am
Her memory sux
Asian Socrates
November 12, 2021 at 11:10 am
Abigail is really smart. Look at her ability to summarise the discussion so accurately and effortlessly. Wow.
akash babu
November 12, 2021 at 2:52 pm
what is there to explain memory is RAM…
ATGG
November 12, 2021 at 4:35 pm
Tell me something. Why are all people except her working in that field “weird” ? Is that an inside mentallity…?
Cynthia LeFevre
November 12, 2021 at 5:24 pm
Photosynthesis
patata de lata
November 12, 2021 at 6:00 pm
I just wanna say how beautiful the college girl is, and also smart!
danceswithdirt
November 12, 2021 at 10:53 pm
27:08 — is she talking about like, deduplication in storing memories?
deepsy2k
November 12, 2021 at 11:08 pm
How come there are no men in this video?
krishna murli
November 13, 2021 at 2:10 am
cute lovely beagle
..
Freak0la
November 13, 2021 at 2:29 am
If anyone loved this video, you’ll like Ray Kurzweils books!!!!!
Chelsea Milan
November 13, 2021 at 6:05 am
Memories are also stored in the body 😀 especially traumatic ones
Allison Statman
November 13, 2021 at 10:26 am
love love love memory.
Well Cognitive Psych and Neuro psych in general
MrWil Vlogs
November 13, 2021 at 11:45 am
Salute to all health professional.
ATGG
November 13, 2021 at 4:21 pm
These and your Joe Navarro videos are the best out there!
Jakob Nunez
November 13, 2021 at 8:48 pm
The first kid has a better memory than me.
Ayleen Rodriguez
November 14, 2021 at 3:16 am
CAN YOU PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SO THE WIRED AUTO COMPLETE INTERVIEW WITH GRETA VAN FLEET!?!?!?
Lime
November 14, 2021 at 4:35 am
I can just imagine these videos where the level 1 7yr old kid suddenly started talking like a level 5 expert.
BEASTZX
November 14, 2021 at 8:04 am
i loooovvvvvveeeeeeee….. poools
AceXon
November 14, 2021 at 5:22 pm
The brain is the most important part of the body.
– brain
BLUE MOONX
November 14, 2021 at 6:21 pm
Interview the squid game cast please
Sam Edge
November 15, 2021 at 3:20 am
I keep coming across people edging and pursuing the concept that memory is what makes us us. It was used a point of getting a way to store people on a hard drive tithe achieve some kind of immortality.
Legolas Greenleaf
November 15, 2021 at 6:28 pm
Wow she’s smart
Cam Silver, Ph.D.
November 16, 2021 at 3:25 am
Hi, please have me on the show, I have a PhD in political science and I teach at West Point and I would love to explain genocide on the five levels of the show!
Gina
November 17, 2021 at 1:15 am
Perfect timing! I’m currently taking a Memory and Cognition course.
Billy
November 17, 2021 at 8:15 pm
Very little is understood of the brain. People like to pretend they know everything about it, when in reality they know absolutely nothing.
Prince Mahin
November 18, 2021 at 2:21 am
i know how brain works but i don’t which part does what ! and i donno their names :p
i can control brain very much than normal human
Prince Mahin
November 18, 2021 at 2:40 am
14:28 , i can creat dream or new thinking like when i want to sleep –
sometime i count , 99-100 it focus my brain in one direction , than
sometime i create a dream , i m walking or doing someting like this …
than my brain make this a his first dream , than i fell in sleep –
easy ,
when i was 5 years old i thought if i don’t sleep night will not end ..
than one day it was 11:45 i failed to sleep . in 2002 –
than i cried alot and told to my mother – maybe i can’t sleep anymore , because it’s 12 am ..
😅🤣🤣 as a kid what i can do …
than i tought i do i sleep ..
after 12 year finding this how to sleep .. we close our eyes than we went to somewahre than we wake up it mornming
that was my question …
now i know that was nothing ..as seriour ..
sleep is rest signal to ur brain —
and ur brain need want to be tried .. to sleep ..
u can make him tried by doing study lol
or u can make him slow but thinking one direction ..
i knew .. our brain release a chemical what create sleep ..
in night or when is my sleep time brain thinks he release that —
after closing eyes and creating a dream is very nice – way to release that ..
Prince Mahin
November 18, 2021 at 2:54 am
16:36 i never became senseless in my life –
i don’t know i can my brain stops without my order – can anyone expaline this –
why never became senseless
stan pentagon
November 18, 2021 at 7:13 am
That first kid is so smart! She thinks very logically 😯👏🏼
Akira Murakami
November 30, 2021 at 1:55 pm
Sad that as she grows older, current society will teach her that emotion is more important and should abandon logic. As Buzz Lightyear told Woody: “snowflake, snowflake everywhere”
stan pentagon
December 1, 2021 at 7:07 am
@Akira Murakami you are absolutely right! that quote🥺 couldn’t agree you more
Omaer 1
November 18, 2021 at 7:04 pm
Very Nice Bro. Get Good. SubhanAllah(SWT).
Omaer 1
November 18, 2021 at 7:05 pm
Ameen. Hm. ALHAMDULILLAH(SWT), ASTAGHFIRULLAH(SWT).
snowangeliquexx
November 20, 2021 at 5:34 pm
Please do literature next !!!!!
Gopher
November 20, 2021 at 7:24 pm
Yawn
Shubce E
November 20, 2021 at 9:52 pm
Hello wired, can you guys make an architect explaining one thing in 5 levels? Thanks for all these videos
Daniel Strain
November 24, 2021 at 3:11 pm
I’m quite certain that the final one, the expert Dr. Bassett, is a time lord.
Kevin Sundelin
November 26, 2021 at 1:01 pm
So many intelligent people in this video. The child’s, whose name I don’t remember, speaking of memory, understanding of the topic really surprised me. Very interesting video!
David Melendez
November 27, 2021 at 11:25 am
I want to be as smart as that 7 year old girl when I grow up
NickEvershedMusic
November 27, 2021 at 9:54 pm
That 7 year old was very smart for her age
Lindsay H.
November 28, 2021 at 5:44 am
I love how excited the experts are when they talk to each other
Abir Roy
November 29, 2021 at 7:14 pm
A memory is a symphony of signals of your experience as the event unfolds. Thats why repeating the event makes it a solid semantic memory as it not only depends on one neural pattern of one particular event but a series of implicit and explicit memory signals superimposing over one another
rdpcl
November 29, 2021 at 11:58 pm
“We don’t remember random things. We remember the things that matter the most”
Oh, so that’s why I still remember the Pokérap lyrics!
sepastianglitter
December 3, 2021 at 12:41 pm
Unfortunately memory storage happened in the moment, and at one point in time that was indeed very important to you. Too bad we can’t consciously control the deletion process lmao
Ja Z
December 4, 2021 at 11:34 am
Or music lyrics in general. I don’t even sometimes know I totally remember every single word in part of a song until I hear it again 3 years later and I can totally sing to it. Fascinates me every single time.
Rek-5
November 30, 2021 at 1:59 am
27:00 more of theorization, then real science
Will say only one: in 5 y.o. we one person, in 10 other, in 20 other. All memory connects in one neural network- at same moment we 1 person through all passed time
Evi
November 30, 2021 at 5:08 am
Emma smart
hihahu tung
November 30, 2021 at 6:03 am
when i was 7, i am sure i dont know the word “hippocampus” is
Meghan Helmich
December 1, 2021 at 12:44 am
First one of these I could actually follow through all 5 levels. Awesome!
A B
December 1, 2021 at 1:30 am
ty
p c
December 1, 2021 at 2:31 am
Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture [Child] and this picture [College Student].
They’re the same picture.
Farida I.
December 2, 2021 at 1:58 am
As someone super interested in Cognitive Neuroscience, I absolutely loved listening to two experts discussing such an important and engaging topic. I hope that one day I can be having conversations like that.
Freyia Lilian
December 2, 2021 at 5:56 am
I love how she doesn’t assume what people know and therefore she doesn’t patronise them when sharing her knowledge. Such great communication!
Joanna Jackson
December 3, 2021 at 5:56 am
memory, “a flexible compass into the future….” that’s the neatest thing about this video, is learning to think of how memory recalls the past, the present, and the future…
Marie Nimo
December 3, 2021 at 9:30 am
What the experts describe at the end makes me revisit Why I wanted to raise my son in Oslo. Oslo is a compact cosmopolitan city that’s built by a community that’s surrounded by and celebrates nature. Now that I had my son and I move to LA I can practically witness his growing interest towards cars 😭
The car culture is so strong that it’s overriding whatever I attempt to teach him. If we were in a city like Oslo where cars are band in the city center I’m quite sure his interests and outlook would be much broader; perhaps he’d notice the architecture or how the people behave differently there versus here. Settings acts as a default map of societal and cultural norms; the setting here is not the model norm I want him to emulate 😟
But maybe printing pictures of fonder memories spent during hikes, museum visits and good natured social activities will help reinforce the “map” he’ll circulate in his memory 🤞🏼
I can’t shut out the world I’m surrounded by but I’ll try my best to mold it back to better shape 🤷🏻🙏🏼😓
Avery
December 6, 2021 at 6:12 pm
Or maybe just dont try controlling the organic growth and development of your son lol
seighart90
December 3, 2021 at 11:47 am
The audio seems to be phasing in this episode
ceejay cub
December 3, 2021 at 5:54 pm
This series makes me smart
Shikhar Bakhda
December 3, 2021 at 11:31 pm
the kid looks like morty
Francesca Badoino
December 4, 2021 at 8:02 am
Toward the end of the call it made me think of CBT: which helps us rewrite our beliefs that memory plays a role in shaping…
Juice Box
December 4, 2021 at 12:49 pm
Teenagers.. represented by doughnuts.. yes
geezluis
December 4, 2021 at 4:08 pm
Man… humans are pretty smart
Polyglot Ava
December 5, 2021 at 7:10 am
That’s it. I’m definitely doing a Phd in Neuroscience.
Alex Morales
December 5, 2021 at 6:33 pm
this was so good
Farah Darawish
December 6, 2021 at 12:58 am
not me watching this to study for my psych exam 😳
BOMB.COM
December 6, 2021 at 7:35 am
Great discussions!
Apparatus 101
December 6, 2021 at 8:14 am
My silly take on defining *”memory”* :
It’s your brain recording information and relaying it back in uniform with our previous encounters regarding modeled behavior.
Moses Mukambo Jr
December 6, 2021 at 7:34 pm
Get Stephanie Kelton to explain Modern Monetary Theory
amirbahalegharn365
December 6, 2021 at 9:05 pm
memory is key to evolution,,,to be smarter…to be able to think..to rewrite..just like how DNA do this….everything is intertangled in our perceptive world
Learn From Others by zara yensee
December 7, 2021 at 4:03 pm
This is amazing
Serra
December 7, 2021 at 8:21 pm
@Wired, would love to have a Network Scientist (would love to see albert-lászló barabási) explain network science in an upcoming episode