How native speakers pronounce “brain”

Secondly, intelligence is dynamic. If you look at the interactions of a human brain, as we heard yesterday from a number of presentations,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

intelligence is wonderfully interactive. The brain isn't divided into compartments. In fact, creativity --

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things. By the way, there's a shaft of nerves that joins the two halves of the brain, called the corpus callosum.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Now, I'm a neuroscientist by training and I know a little bit about how the brain performs under stress. It releases cortisol that raises your heart rate,

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

and the meetings I had upcoming in Europe, and, you know, with all the cortisol in my brain, but I didn't know it was cloudy because my thinking was cloudy.

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

based on the way our spatial memory works. There's a structure in the brain called the hippocampus, that evolved over tens of thousands of years,

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

where the friendly and enemy tribes live. The hippocampus is the part of the brain that in London taxicab drivers becomes enlarged.

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

that in London taxicab drivers becomes enlarged. It's the part of the brain that allows squirrels to find their nuts. And if you're wondering, somebody actually did the experiment

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

They weren't using smell, they were using the hippocampus, this exquisitely evolved mechanism in the brain for finding things. But it's really good for things that don't move around much,

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

Now these are some rather obvious things. Remember, when you're under stress, the brain releases cortisol. Cortisol is toxic, and it causes cloudy thinking.

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

but at least you're practiced with this kind of thinking. Remember, our brain under stress releases cortisol, and one of the things that happens at that moment

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

preserve what I like to call a long-format brain. The problems of the world cannot be seen

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

are married or are living with or dating their future partner by 30. We know that the brain caps off its second and last growth spurt in your 20s

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

we all know that the first five years are a critical period for language and attachment in the brain. It's a time when your ordinary, day-to-day life

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

very short videos. Young people call it brain rot, which is a funny term,

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

but it might really be true because the adolescent brain is always a brain that's being remodeled.

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

adolescent brain is always a brain that's being remodeled. The neural network of a child has to

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

we might call techno-skepticism. Protect brain development through puberty. That's why it's so important for

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

principles of techno-skepticism. One, protect brain development through puberty.

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

The second I had that thought about that experiment, my brain started screaming at me all the reasons why this was a really, really bad idea.

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

Nevertheless, I decided the experiment must continue, so I ignored that part of my brain. I turned to her and I said,

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

with something that gets them to lean forward in their seat. Something that ignites a little curiosity fire in their brain. And we need that today more than ever.

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

I had your undivided attention. And that makes for the most fertile brain soil, because learning is best when it’s attached to a visceral experience.

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

and be 100 percent free for all teachers forever, as we work to ignite those brain fires of curiosity in the next generation of big problem solvers.

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

Advocates of sleep-friendly start times know that adolescence is a period of dramatic brain development, particularly in the parts of the brain

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

know that adolescence is a period of dramatic brain development, particularly in the parts of the brain that are responsible for those higher order thinking processes,

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

including reasoning, problem solving, and good judgment. In other words, the very type of brain activity that’s responsible for reining in those impulsive and often risky behaviors that are so characteristic of adolescence.

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

to people who've lost them. Noland Arbaugh, the first person to receive a Neuralink brain implant, says that using it feels like using the force.

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

is now starting to see inside. Today, a brain implant has about 1,000 connections into the brain, and soon it will have 10,000,

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

As the sun sets, your eyes send signals about the dwindling light to a part of your brain called suprachiasmatic nucleus. This is basically your circadian rhythm’s clock.

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

and levels start to rise about two hours before your normal bedtime. At the same time, neurons in the hypothalamus and brain stem release a compound called GABA.

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

release a compound called GABA. This slows down activity in your brain and can have a calming effect. You’re approaching your normal bedtime.

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

You’re approaching your normal bedtime. Since the brain needs to cool down before sleep, your core body temperature starts to drop.

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

Uh-oh, your attention has started to drift. Throughout the day, your brain has been releasing a waste product called adenosine.

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

called adenosine. The more adenosine latching onto receptors in your brain, the more tired and inattentive you become.

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

Right now these dates and names are being stored in an area of the brain called the hippocampus. Normally when you go to sleep, memories like these are consolidated

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

Normally when you go to sleep, memories like these are consolidated and slotted into long-term storage in your brain’s neocortex. So it’s a good thing you only need to remember this information

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

and old ones. So your sleepless brain might be able to regurgitate facts, but you're finding it more difficult to find patterns or problem solve.

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

You head up to your room, anxious and irritable. Your amygdala, the part of the brain involved with processing emotion, is going haywire.

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

Your bed has never felt so sweet. After one sleepless night, your body and brain bounce back pretty quickly. Which is a good thing since we can’t always control how much sleep we get.

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

the endocannabinoids. It's the endocannabinoids, produced in our brain and throughout our body, that are thought to cause that high that people experience after running

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

and that soft voice that just deeply relaxes me. And it gives me these light, sparkling, pleasurable brain tingles. I enjoy it so much

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

they felt calmed and they had these light, sparkly brain tingles. And I also noticed

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

a kind of myth, really. And this is the myth that the brain is a computer that just happens to be made of meat rather than metal.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

a collection of computations that just happens to be carried out in the wetware of the brain in us, but which could equally be carried out in silicon, in AI.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

in a long line of technological metaphors that we've reached for when trying to understand the deep complexity of the brain. One time, the brain was a system of plumbing.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

when trying to understand the deep complexity of the brain. One time, the brain was a system of plumbing. Later, it was a telephone exchange.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

The map with the territory. For one thing, in a real brain, there's no sharp separation between the mindware and the wetware.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

is unlikely to be a matter of computation of algorithm alone. Look closely at a brain, at any brain, and it becomes less and less plausible that all that's going on

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

But there's so much else that escapes the confines of the digital. Neurotransmitter chemicals course through the brain circuitry, electromagnetic fields sweep through the cortex like weather systems.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

that power today's AI. The brain is not, or at least not just, a computer made of meat. And so consciousness is very unlikely to be a matter of computation alone.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

Let me put it another way. What if we simulated every last detail about the brain in some massive supercomputer?

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

in some massive supercomputer? Now if the fine details of the brain do matter for consciousness, well, wouldn't this be enough

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

but it does not make them any more real. We can have a simulation of the brain, and you can make it as detailed as you want.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

by the idea that it just has to be some kind of information processing. After all, if you think the brain literally is a computer, then what else could it really be?

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

Craig Richard: Now, if you felt deeply relaxed or maybe you felt those special brain tingles, you might have been wondering, “What is going on inside my brain?”

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

or maybe you felt those special brain tingles, you might have been wondering, “What is going on inside my brain?” Well, we wondered the same thing.

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

then what else could it really be? But once we see the brain more clearly for what it really is, many new possibilities arise.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

Well, we wondered the same thing. I recently published a brain scan study with Bryson Lochte and other researchers from Dartmouth College.

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

and other researchers from Dartmouth College. And we saw that the brain regions that are activated while people are watching ASMR videos like these

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

while people are watching ASMR videos like these are the same brain regions that are activated when people are receiving positive personal attention

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

They feel deeply relaxed. They have these special, light brain tingles. And it’s helping them to fall asleep more easily,

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

Now there’s plenty of unanswered questions still. Like, what might be the brain chemicals that are causing this amazing sensation? One likely candidate is the neural hormone oxytocin,

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

and consciousness together. Second, the brain is not, or not just, a computer. So consciousness is unlikely to be

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

It’s already well known that your oxytocin levels in your brain increase when anyone gives you positive personal attention

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

You might have been watching those video clips and been like, “I didn’t feel any of those amazing brain tingles. Grrr!”

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

It could be determined by the sequence of your genes related to oxytocin or other brain chemicals. Another big question is how do these health benefits of ASMR compare

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

and jolting the body into hyperarousal. In this condition, the brain is hunting for potential threats, making it impossible to ignore any slight discomfort or nighttime noise.

What causes insomnia? - Dan Kwartler

the quality of their rest is compromised. Our brain’s primary source of energy is cerebral glucose, and in healthy sleep, our metabolism slows to conserve this glucose for waking hours.

What causes insomnia? - Dan Kwartler

While they sleep, their bodies are working overtime, burning through the brain’s supply of energy-giving glucose. This symptom of poor sleep leaves insomniacs

What causes insomnia? - Dan Kwartler

Well, not so fast. It turns out that sleep is also crucial for your brain, with a fifth of your body's circulatory blood

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

being channeled to it as you drift off. And what goes on in your brain while you sleep is an intensely active period of restructuring

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

from our fleeting short-term memory to our more durable long-term memory. This consolidation occurs with the help of a major part of the brain, known as the hippocampus.

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

driving its gradual redistribution to long-term storage in the cortex. REM sleep, on the other hand, with its similarity to waking brain activity, is associated with the consolidation of procedural memory.

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

you could even say that proper sleep will have you waking up every morning with a new and improved brain, ready to face the challenges ahead.

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

Nobody remembered her, but they liked her a lot because they had seen her face, like this is our brain, right? And what I think the other implication of mere exposure effect is

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

we're stuck in an approval mindset. An approval mindset tap dances on our caveman brain and reminds us that belonging feels better than almost anything else.

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

And this brings us back to feeling awkward. Feeling awkward is a nudge from our modern brain that says, “Careful, there’s risk ahead,

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

If you're breathing faster, it's no problem. It's getting more oxygen to your brain. And participants who learned to view the stress response

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

Oxytocin is a neuro-hormone. It fine-tunes your brain's social instincts. It primes you to do things

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

Okay, so how is knowing this side of stress going to make you healthier? Well, oxytocin doesn't only act on your brain. It also acts on your body,

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

versus when we're watching something that's static. And what she did was she compared the brain function of two groups of people,

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

in a dynamic conversation, and she compared that to the brain activity of people who were watching her talk about the same subject

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

So what's the difference? This is your brain on real social interaction. What you're seeing is the difference in brain activity

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

This is your brain on real social interaction. What you're seeing is the difference in brain activity between interacting in person and taking in static content.

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

between interacting in person and taking in static content. In orange, you see the brain areas that are associated with attention, social intelligence --

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

when we're interacting with a live partner. Now, these richer brain signatures might be why recruiters from Fortune 500 companies

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

bolsters the immune system, sends feel-good hormones surging through the bloodstream and brain and helps us live longer.

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

Like your muscles are always talking to your brain and having conversations that you don't hear.

How to Use Your Muscles — or Risk Losing Them (W/ Bonnie Tsui) | How to Be a Better Human | TED · TED

body to talk to all these different parts of it, including your brain, and are telling your brain to do certain

How to Use Your Muscles — or Risk Losing Them (W/ Bonnie Tsui) | How to Be a Better Human | TED · TED

parts of it, including your brain, and are telling your brain to do certain beneficial things.

How to Use Your Muscles — or Risk Losing Them (W/ Bonnie Tsui) | How to Be a Better Human | TED · TED

Look, I I guess I'll probably always be a brain over brawn kind of guy, but spending the afternoon with

How to Use Your Muscles — or Risk Losing Them (W/ Bonnie Tsui) | How to Be a Better Human | TED · TED

And to keep these millions of clocks in sync, we have one central body clock that is located in the brain, in an area which we call the hypothalamus.

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

And this is achieved by close connections between the internal biological clock in the brain and our eyes. And now you may know that in the human retina,

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

and pass this on to the internal biological clock in the brain. And I guess you've all experienced how well this biological timing system,

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

Using something like fMRI or EEG, we can take what are like little snapshots of the brain while it’s reading. So have people read words or stories and then take pictures of their brain.

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

we can take what are like little snapshots of the brain while it’s reading. So have people read words or stories and then take pictures of their brain. And those brain images are like fuzzy,

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

So have people read words or stories and then take pictures of their brain. And those brain images are like fuzzy, out-of-focus pictures of the scratch pad of the brain.

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

And those brain images are like fuzzy, out-of-focus pictures of the scratch pad of the brain. They tell us a little bit about how the brain is processing

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

out-of-focus pictures of the scratch pad of the brain. They tell us a little bit about how the brain is processing and representing information while you read.

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED