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B1 Intermedio Inglés 26:13 Educational

Divergent Minds

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00:06

[ambient music playing]

00:11

[Michael] Derek, have you ever watched Mind Field

00:14

on YouTube?

00:16

No, but I would like to watch it, Michael.

00:19

[Michael] Okay.

00:20

So Mind Field has a theme song

00:22

that I'd love for you to listen to

00:24

to see if you can play it for me on the piano.

00:27

I would like to listen to it, Michael.

00:29

All right. Just load this up here.

00:33

[theme music playing]

00:44

[playing piano]

01:08

Oh, hello.

01:09

This is a tray of brains.

01:12

Cow brains.

01:13

Here is a sagittal slice I prepared earlier.

01:17

Now, imagine that this is my brain.

01:20

Just looking at it, it would be impossible to know

01:22

what part does what

01:24

or that different parts did different things at all.

01:26

But if you change specific parts of your brain,

01:29

you can often affect specific functions.

01:32

So if this was my brain...

01:34

that would be pretty bad.

01:36

I would almost certainly

01:37

have just become cortically bind.

01:40

Of course, scientists can't go cutting and poking

01:43

and stabbing people's brains

01:44

to see how it affects their behavior,

01:45

but they can study the behavior and abilities of people

01:49

whose brains are different from neurotypical brains.

01:52

For instance, in rare cases,

01:54

people whose eyes function normally

01:56

but who are blind due to damage to their visual cortex

01:59

may experience the neurological phenomenon

02:02

of blindsight

02:03

which allows them to sense and respond

02:05

to objects they cannot see.

02:07

Due to a brain injury, this patient

02:10

is consciously blind on his right side.

02:12

But while he sees nothing in his right field of vision,

02:15

he's able to sense the presence and motion

02:18

of an object he cannot see.

02:20

[man] You're moving it up and down.

02:22

I am aware of a motion,

02:23

but that motion has no shape,

02:25

no color, no depth, no form, no contrast.

02:27

[Michael] Blindsight is possible

02:28

because besides the visual cortex

02:30

which is associated with conscious vision,

02:32

there are other brain areas

02:34

that get information from the eyes unconsciously.

02:37

We have learned about this unconscious vision we all have

02:40

because of blindsight.

02:43

The study of divergent minds

02:45

has revolutionized our understanding of the brain

02:47

in ways that would not have been possible otherwise.

02:50

People who differ from the norm

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expose elements of all our minds

02:55

that we didn't even know were there.

02:57

[ambient music playing]

03:01

[upbeat music playing]

03:07

[Michael] One very special divergent mind

03:09

is that of Derek Paravicini.

03:11

Let's go. We're gonna count a hundred

03:13

-to find the hotel, okay? -Okay. Yeah.

03:14

[both] One,

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two,

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three...

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[Michael] Derek is both blind and autistic.

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He's also a musical savant...

03:22

Now for the live music you were promised.

03:24

[Michael] ...meaning despite severe cognitive

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and social impairments,

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his musical ability is far greater

03:30

than what would be considered normal.

03:32

And tonight, he's performing at the release party

03:34

for his latest album.

03:36

[playing "Flight of the Bumblebees"]

03:40

Derek possesses an incredible gift.

03:43

He's performed all over the world

03:45

and has become a symbol of success

03:47

for other autistic individuals.

03:57

Later, we'll take a deeper look into Derek's unique mind.

04:01

Thank you.

04:04

[upbeat music playing]

04:11

[Michael] One hundred and fifty years ago,

04:12

scientists still didn't know

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if different parts of the brain did different things.

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It was only by studying people with atypical minds

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that we discovered that there are different modules

04:23

in the brain that have different functions.

04:25

The first major discovery

04:27

showing that the brain had these specialized modules

04:30

was made by a doctor named Paul Broca in the 1800s.

04:34

Broca had heard of a patient who had no problem

04:36

understanding language,

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but who struggled to produce language.

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The only thing the patient could say

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was the sound "tan,"

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over and over.

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He would say tan,

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tan, tan, tan, tan, tan, tan, tan, tan, tan, tan, tan.

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When the patient died,

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Broca performed an autopsy on him

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and found that the patient's brain

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had damage to a specific part

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of its left hemisphere.

04:58

Broca concluded that this brain region,

05:00

now called Broca's Area,

05:02

must be important for producing speech

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but not for understanding speech.

05:07

This language deficit called Broca's Aphasia

05:10

still affects hundreds of thousands of people

05:13

who get strokes in the left side of their brain.

05:16

A patient with Broca's Aphasia can talk,

05:18

but struggles to get the words out.

05:21

[woman] So what's your name?

05:24

Scott.

05:26

Oh, no.

05:30

-Sarah Scott. -[woman] That's right.

05:31

And how old are you?

05:38

I can't.

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-[woman] Try. -I can't.

05:42

[Michael] Another part of the brain related to speech

05:45

is Wernicke's Area

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