Rebecca Schwarzlose: The Maps Within Our Brain

Rebecca Schwarzlose is a cognitive neuroscientist researching the developing brain at Washington University in St. Louis. She received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from M.I.T. and has served as chief editor of the scholarly journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 

Her work on Brainscapes was supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology. More information about the author, her work, and her writing is available at www.gardenofthemind.com or on Twitter @gothemind.

Her newest book, Brainscapes, is a path-breaking journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action are products of maps etched into your gray matter—and how technology can use them to read your mind.

Read more: http://www.rebeccaschwarzlose.com

Highlights

1:00 Rebecca's journey into what the mind is.

4:30 The maps of the Brain.

8:30 Types of Maps in the Brain.

11:45 Is the Brain hallucinating reality?

14:00 The evolutionary code of the brain.

18:30 Brain Computer Interfaces.

23:00 The risk of harvesting neural data for commercial uses.

31:00 How to use the maps of our brain for our everyday life.

34:00 Closing remarks.

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