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Where did the speaker get his ideas from?
The Internet
A book
His girlfriend
A class
How does the speaker say the brain works?
Like a series of codes
Like a logical process
Like a sequence of units
Like a system of connections
What happened when the speaker saw a deer on his way home?
He remembered to pick up his dog.
He remembered where he met a good friend.
It made him think about what happened to a friend.
It made him forget which way to go.
According to the speaker, what can people do when they have trouble remembering something?
Avoid thinking about it
Think of something interesting
Focus your mind on it
Think of something related
What is the purpose of this talk?
To compare the brains of animals and humans
To describe a concept
To tell about an experience
To explain how memory works
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Um, I was speaking with my girlfriend yesterday.
And we were talking about... How ideas pop into people's heads.
How, how people come to think of things.
How they're reminded of things.
Um, the brain_ I'm a, I'm a psychology major.
And I took a cognitive psych class.
And this is what my professor taught me.
The brain, works like a network, like a networking system.
There are_ it's I guess like a web.
And, when things_ you_ when you learn new things, you place them some where on the web.
And... though_ there're net_ there are connections that are made other things around it.
Like, th_ you can actually think of it in terms of a, physical map, where, where it's got like stems coming off of it.
Like let's say, you're thinking of a dog, the stems right around the dog, might be cat, um, owner, fur and, in turn, in, in turn the thing around the cat might be rabbit,uh, cat food, dish and like that, and, so and so forth.
You could actually_ that's why sometimes like, if you think of dog_ if you see a dog, you might think of, um, you might think of your, your cat at home.
You know, you might think_ maybe your cat at home's name is like, uh, Spot.
And you might think Spot was a dog you had when you were a kid.
And I,t it_ the connections are pretty incredible how ,and how quickly it happens.
Um, we were driving home and I saw a deer running across the road.
And I thought_ and I, I realized how, how quickly I thought.
I thought deer.
And the deer reminded me of a dog, the dog that happened to pop in my head was my friend's.
My friend, was, recently in a plane crash.
And that reminded me of something else and, just by seeing the deer all these string of, these string of memories popped into me, popped into my head.
And um... And uh_ uh, whatchamacallit.
That's why sometimes things pop into your head.
And that's why, maybe if you'r-e_ if you have a trouble thinking of something, you could just think of things that might be related to it.
And it will pop into your head, because, those connections might fire.
And, um, it'll, it'll come close to the area where the actual memory of the n- of the object that you can't re- think of is.
If that's clear at all.