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Nick: Action!
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Hank: Oh, my, that’s new.
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N: Abby!
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H: Go see your dad…stretch… (laughing)
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Last week we talked about how brain function is localized, and this is another peculiarly
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exa-ex-exampalant-ex, of that. Because the specific sliver of his brain respomble
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for face-ble, face-ble
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I probably can’t even smell half of what you can smell. No. No. We have different senses.
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(kissing noises) Yeah. (laughing) I’m gesturing too much for you. You’re like
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“Are you petting me? No, you’re just waving them around.”
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But it’s not linear, like, if I see a tiny star and it’s just a tiny–are you going to
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go away? Is it time for Abby to go? Or if you’re looking elsewhere maybe you see
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a coffee cup or a corgi or a scary clown holding a piece of a tiny cream pie okay. (laughing)
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Now light has all kinds of fascinating characteristics that determine how we sense it, but for the
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furpose– but for the furposes, furposes, furposes.
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Boop boop booot do do boo doo doo boop boop booot do do boo doo doo.
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The way we, the way, the way we register the brightness of a color, the contrast between
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the orange of sherbert and the orange of a construction cone–
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Michael: You called “sherbet” “sherbert.”
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H: I called “sherbert” “sherbet”?
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M: You called “sherbet” “sherbert.”
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H: It’s “sherbert”.
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N: I pronounce it “sherbert” as well, but it’s supposed to be pronounced “sherbet.”
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H: No. It’s “sherbert.” “Sherbert” is the word of, we’re talking about
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the same thing, like the icy ice cream but it’s not ice cream stuff?
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N: Yeah, orange sherbert.
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H: Sherbert?
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Voice: I say “sherbert.”
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H: I say “sherbert” ’cause it is sherbert.
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M: A frozen sweet dessert made from a fruit or fruit juices.
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H: Sherbert with an “r”?
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M: No.
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H: Well, type in sherbert with an “r.”
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M: Your timer has crashed. (laughing)
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H: The computer can’t even handle it.
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M: Yeah, if you type in “sherbert” it redirects you to “sherbet.”
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H: No. But it’s–
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M: I typed in “sherbert.” It took me to “sherbet.”
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H: Okay, did you type it into the dictionary? Type it into Google. Ask Google about sherbert.
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M: Sherbert may refer to “sherbert,” an alternate spelling of “sherbet,” an iced dessert containing
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both fruit juice and between 1% and 2% low fat milk.
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H: So sherbert is a thing?
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M: Eh, sure.
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H: But, like, why on earth would I have known my whole life that it’s “sherbert” if it’s
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not–it’s just a regional, it’s gotta be just a regional thing.
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And, just as you’d expect a lens to do, it projects these-(electronic device noise)
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Our rod detec-our rod, our rod- you and me, we share one.
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Our rods detect black ip–ip.
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And the human eye is terrific at seeing color. Our difference threshold for colors is so
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exceptional that the average person can distinguish a million different hues.
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How many hues are there?
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Voice: Hugh Dancy, Hugh Darcey, Hugh-
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H: -Jackman, Hugh from The Next Generation-
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Sax’s face-blindness is congenital, but propo-prose, but it can-may, but it may also, but it- it-
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(bleep).
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That clown is frowning and running toward me with a tiny cream pie. Tiny cream pie,
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huh? Okay. I’m coming.
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Look at, look I, look at this, look at this dude, his hands could, ham hands could-
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The way we- the way we weh- the way we register, the way we, the way we, the way we register,
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the way, the way we register the way we- that’s a hard one. Just spat on you.
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Voice: It’s OK.
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H: Which we typically describe in deci…(bleep), deci-(bleep).
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But taste is nothing without smell. Plug your nose and mouth mlnlllr
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Right next to our emotional registry, the amygdala, and our memory keeper, the hypo-campo-campocap.
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The hypohippohi-pohippohi. And our memory keeper, the hypoca- hyocampus,
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(bleep) it’s a hippo, it’s a hippocampus. Ugh.
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We’re all about touching. We’ve got songs about magic, and gold, and invisible human
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tou-what the (bleep)… (laughing)
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Smelling, hear- smelling, hearing, tasting, and seeing- I don’t know, I don’t know where
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I was- how I was, what I was thinking there.
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It’s that what that-ack-(ack-ing and caw-ing).
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Seeing- feelings is, no.
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Smelling, hearing, smelling, hearing- (coughing)
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Smelling, hearing, tasting, and seeing, all fantaspic, fantaspic.
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And some studies indicate that children who didn’t receive enough phygical, physical,
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physical, physical,
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With something soft, like this anglerfish plushie, or a warm mug, or an ice cube, you’ll
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find that each of you airs ah hahst, ah frick, ahs, it just tickles, experience wetness,
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just sensations.
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Get your brain in the game, Hank.
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Understanding exactly how we get fooled helps us understand how our llllllllllll.
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Except, that in reality, several variety of roses do not have thorns. Both the good and
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the bad – on occasion- tragically die young, fats, fats? Fats.
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Now, you should see both of them, but likely, your brain wants to perceive the image related
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to whichever cue you first heard or whichever image is more familiar to you. By cuing mammal
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or bird, I influenced your expectations, and I can read much faster than this.
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And the surroundings, or ground, that thathathathathathatha That hits your retinas as a two-dimensional
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image, yet sometau, sometau, (laughing) (bleep). My mouth is broken.
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For example, relative size allows you to determine that your crush is not supporting a tiny newborn
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Chihuahua on their shoulder, but rather there is a full grown Chihuahua behind, eh, in the
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back of the room. (bleep)
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Relative size allows you to determine that your crush is not supporting a tiny newborn
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Chihuahua on their shoulder, but rather there is a full grown Chihuahua in the back roo-(slapping)
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Finally, our interposition, or overlap cue, tells us when one object, like this over here
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blocks our view of something else, your crush will appear as a differ-what
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Like, your brain gauges motion based on, based, (hissing)
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It’s like your senses are just collecting a bunch of Legos, and with them, your brain
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can build and rebuild whatever it perceives into a party or duck or Chihuahua, to look
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like (laughter)
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What’s something that we all experience all the time that we can’t really measure and
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barely have words to define? Oh that was-there was a rhyme. I didn’t even
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notice it until I did it that way. (laughing)
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It’s this awareness that allows us to take in and organize information from many sources
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and senses at once. (laughing)
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Or be physiologically a-aaaaahhh.
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All of your senses combined are scooping up nearly eleven million (ringtone) oh no. Why?
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Voice: It wasn’t my phone!
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H: Oh, I’m over my text message limit.
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In terms of visual attention, think of it like a, think of it like a, think of it like
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a, think of it, think of it, think of it,
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In terms of visual attention, think of it like a spotlight on a biggy- biggydage
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What? Around you and on that stage many of which your automatic sub-processor brain is
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covertly registering. (sigh)
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Your socks or your feet or your butt or whatever I talk about, your tongue in your mouth, isn’t
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it weird that you have a tongue in your mouth, and it’s like filling up your mouth with tongue,
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llllll, and you’ll never forget.
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When you shift your primary selective attention from driving to to LMAO OMG nyahh.
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When you shift your primary selective attention from driving to OMG LOLOLOLOLOL. (Laughing)
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Is that good?
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When you shift your primary selective attention from driving to o…
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When you shift your primary selective attention from driving to
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omg lololololol you’re also unlit-unlittingly; we’ll get there. Let’s just do it a thousand
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times, it’ll be fine.
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You also unwittingly activate your selective inattention, which means that you failed to
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see that cyclist that you almost ran over which would not- It’s gonna get there. We’re
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gonna do it. It’s gonna happen. Stop looking at me like that.
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Bino- binocular visual cues, as the name gives away, require the use of both seveveada.
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Voice: That’s okay, let’s go back.
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H: All the way back.
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That figure ground dynamic, though, is always there.
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Voice: Yes.
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(laughter)
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H: I did not say the words that were on the screen, but, yes.
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