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.


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[YeansP]

For a seven years old, she sounds way smarter than her age!

[asiansocrates]

Abigail is really smart. Look at her ability to summarise the discussion so accurately and effortlessly. Wow.

[pairoleggs]

i really love how she actually talks to the kids in this and takes time to engage them. so many of the professionals in this series don't really try to inspire complex thoughts or critical thinking but kids have some of the coolest ideas and thoughts.

[KartikSPradeepan]

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.

[freyialilian]

I love how she doesn’t assume what people know and therefore she doesn’t patronise them when sharing her knowledge. Such great communication!

[anna-ly.probst]

"The role of memory is much less about being accurate representation of the past and much more about being kind of a flexible compass into the future" - Dr. Shohamy
This is so true and deep if you think about it.

[nathanielnatejacobs]

Let's Appreciate Wired for conducting some educational cool content instead of some random celebrity routine stuff.

[klausgaming]

this gets weird when you realize it's their brains talking about themselves

[esunaitohattori]

Abigail's a smart kid!
She spoke so well and tbh I don'tt think I knew what was teal when I was her age

[LoboMendez]

watching the two at the end was so satisfying - they almost became giddy and their conversation was illuminating.

[tomganten]

She explained all levels really well and was kind to everyone. Well done!

[gladitsnotme]

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.

[AugustAdvice]

I recently learned that there is a huge amount of people who literally cannot picture images in their mind's eye. Like if I said, imagine a castle. You probably can create the image of a castle in your mind, right? Well, there are people who cant. At all. This fascinates me because I just always assumed everyone could do that. I think we should research this more and figure out why certain people cant do that.

[gvd]

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

[faridaelb]

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.

[lindsayh.]

I love how excited the experts are when they talk to each other

[kevinsundelin]

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!

[salem-xhpl]

its just so great to see that little girl understand and think abt everything that woman tells her, you can see on her face and in her eyes that she’s registering and shes already so smart, i loved that

[FatMat]

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"

[luminoustyler]

Very amazing to see in the eyes of almost everyone involved the fascination, and in the adults the passion driving these discussions. Attentive listening and equal sharing, just so beautiful to see