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B1 中级 英语 21:36 Educational

Touch - Mind Field (Ep 6)

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- When it comes to illusions,

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optical illusions get all the attention.

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But the whole body you have

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can be fooled and can fool the brain.

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One of my favorite physical illusions

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is the thermal grill illusion.

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and you can do it right at home.

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I have some hot dog halves in an ice bath.

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I also have warm hot dog halves.

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Now what I'm going to do is marry the halves together

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so that they alternate, warm, cool.

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Warm, cool.

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When I'm done, I will have a torture device.

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But not one that hurts your body,

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one that hurts your mind. [laughing]

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[electronic music]

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♪ ♪

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Rosanna Pansino. - Hello, Michael.

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- Welcome to "Mind Field." - [chuckles]

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- Rosanna Pansino is the host of the YouTube cooking show

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"Nerdy Nummies."

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- Brain cake. Mmm.

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- So I thought she would be the perfect candidate

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to try out our hot dog illusion.

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- Oh, yeah.

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- Now you didn't hear or see anything I just did, right?

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- No. - Good, all right.

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Well, you are in for a treat.

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What I want you to do is take the bottom of your forearm

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and place it, skin showing... - Okay.

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Right onto these hot dogs.

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- Oh!

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- What'd you feel? - Ouch.

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But now touch them individually.

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- Oh, like, hurt.

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Cold, warm, cold, warm, cold, warm.

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- But none of them is as hot as they all felt together.

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So what's going on? - I don't know. Magic?

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What's going on over here? - Can I try?

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Of course I can try. It's my show.

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- Yeah, do it. - Oh, yeah.

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What we've built here is a version

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of the thermal grill illusion.

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And for reasons that are still being debated,

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this can cause a sensation of pain.

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Maybe the sensors we have, specific to hot and cold,

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are both also specific to extreme pain.

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And getting them to fire right together

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makes the body think, "Whoa, whoa, whoa."

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If they're both firing that near to each other,

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that means get away. - Red alert.

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- Red alert, yeah. - That's what my arm did.

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- So what I'm really trying to say is

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this is a great way to hurt someone

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without there ever being a mark or any actual damage.

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- That's pretty sneaky. - Do try this at home.

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[tranquil music]

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♪ ♪

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- The surface of the human body

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contains millions of nerve endings

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that send touch-related sensory information to the brain.

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But in some cases, those sensations

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don't even need to be generated by nerve endings.

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Ever heard of sympathy pain?

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The most well-known type of sympathy pain

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is called couvade syndrome.

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It's when a pregnant woman's husband

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goes through labor pains.

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Husbands can actually sympathize

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with their pregnant wives so much

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that they experience the same problems,

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such as weight gain, insomnia,

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nausea, mood swings, et cetera.

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Sympathy pain is also known as synesthetic pain.

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It's pain sparked by seeing someone else get hurt.

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- Ooh!

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- Amputees can actually be more susceptible to it

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because experiencing trauma can make the brain more sensitive

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to other people's pain.

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Amputees can also feel pain in the limb

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that is no longer there.

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That is known as phantom pain.

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But perhaps the most surprising way

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that the brain and pain interact

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can be demonstrated by the nocebo effect.

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Have you ever heard of the placebo effect?

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It's like when a fake pain pill

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actually cures a person's pain

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because they have a positive expectation it will work.

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Well, today,

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we're demonstrating the exact opposite.

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If a subject expects

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they're going to experience something unpleasant,

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like pain, will they feel it

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even if it actually exists only in their mind.

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We've told our subject that she's participating in a study

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to test a non-invasive bone density scanner.

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But actually, it's a totally fake machine

04:37

that we built from a desk lamp, an air compressor,

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