The Acting Brain

with Robert Brown, Daniel Wolpert, John Krakauer , Thomas Jessell and Eric Kandel
in Science & Health part of Charlie Rose: The Brain Series
on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 * * * * *

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Charlie Rose Brain Series Episode Three: with Eric Kandel, Daniel Wolpert (Univ. Cambridge), John Krakauer (Columbia), Tom Jessell (Columbia) and Robert Brown (U Mass)

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emotion
consciousness
brain
memory
perception
Cognition
science
health
free will

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    1. thill94703  12/30/2010 07:43 PM Report

      FOR Charlie Rose episode on ALS. Why not replace bad motor neuron with a conducting wire with interface at each end. Bypass failed biological pathway with electronic.

    2. c824767  06/06/2010 11:06 PM Report

      what do you mean, infants think their language is easy to learn. how many french can actually construct a grammatically correct french sentence ? how many people are able to write English correctly, when vowels are pronounced more inconsistently than maybe in any other language ? how many illiterate people do you think are there in Cambodia where they have a ridiculously difficult alphabet ? how many hours do you think do Japanese kids spend learning their alphabet. it is surprising that they ever get to subjects like biology geography or math. I hypothesize that people who are able to learn the grammar of their own language, are able to learn another language more easily. however, there are not many people whose brains are inclined to learn grammar.

    3. naveen  03/02/2010 04:52 PM Report

      @Bechard

      It is very likely that we all have innate biases that make some languages easier to learn than others (and some non-attested languages impossible to learn); these biases, which make language learning possible, will almost certainly be universal, because all human infants (ignoring rare pathologies) can learn any of the natural languages. Therefore, all human infants will find the same languages easy/difficult to learn - i.e. all humans are predisposed to learning particular languages over others, and we all share the same predispositions for language learning.

    4. kylewallace69  01/21/2010 02:50 PM Report

      Bechard:

      Chomsky has spoken to this issue.

    5. Bechard  01/20/2010 12:22 AM Report

      Watching this episode got me thinking about a question that I have been unable to find an answer to. "Can one have a genetic disposition to the mastery of a certain language over another?" If anyone is familiar with literature on this topic please, possibly send me an email pbechard@hotmail.com.

    6. ShalomFreedman  01/18/2010 03:31 PM Report

      An illuminating discussion. Now I know why trees do not have brains. That was a poor attempt at a joke. The discussion was informative, with each of the panelists contributing from their own specific realm of knowledge. A wonderful gift to laymen who can become 'up-to- date' to a degree on what is happening in this most important area of study and investigation. All praise to Charlie Rose and Eric Kandel in the way they conducted the discussion.