1/ Teaser #1 for the upcoming Neuroscience BOOTCAMP, starting Nov 22, facilitated by @pratikmutha999
Have you heard of synesthesia? When one sensory input leads to multiple outputs... For example,
-Richard Feynman saw letters in equations in different colours;
Have you heard of synesthesia? When one sensory input leads to multiple outputs... For example,
-Richard Feynman saw letters in equations in different colours;
2/ -for Vladimir Nabokov, the long vowel aaah had “the tint of weathered wood”
-Franz Liszt used to berate his orchestra—who could only stare back, bewildered—for playing his music the wrong colour: “Gentlemen, a little bluer, please, the tone depends on it!”
-Franz Liszt used to berate his orchestra—who could only stare back, bewildered—for playing his music the wrong colour: “Gentlemen, a little bluer, please, the tone depends on it!”
3/ Synesthesia is related to which neurons 'fire together' and thus are 'wired together'. Synesthesia is not just a quirky phenomenon- it indicates the 'plasticity' of the brain.
4/ This property of brain plasticity can be used to train patients with brain damage to function by using other parts of the brain (e.g. people who cannot see may learn 'to see' by having a camera placed on their head send signals to an electrode touching the tongue)
5/ For more details about the course for high school students up to Grade 12, starting Sunday, Nov 22, and to register, visit genwise.in/events-3/neuro…
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