Watch Your Musical Brain

Jon Stewart of the daily show interviews Neurologist Oliver Sacks who is the author of the book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (2007) -- Revised & Expanded (2008). He has appeared on PBS program "Musical Instinct"

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How Chaos Drives the Brain

Brain neuron constantly fire in response to the internal and external stimulus. Most of the time Brain is stable but there are times when it operates as a chaotic system. The video shows the animation of the brain's behavior

Neuroscientists have long suspected as much. Only recently, however, have they come up with proof that brains work this way. Now they are trying to work out why. Some believe that near-chaotic states may be crucial to memory, and could explain why some people are smarter than others.

In technical terms, systems on the edge of chaos are said to be in a state of "self-organised criticality". These systems are right on the boundary between stable, orderly behaviour - such as a swinging pendulum - and the unpredictable world of chaos, as exemplified by turbulence.

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