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The Brain Doesn’t Think the Way You Think It Does

The Quanta Podcast

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How the Brain Functions

For us to truly understand how the brain works, concepts at the field's core may need to be revised. Recent work has found that two thirds of the brain is involved in simple eye movements. Half of the brain gets activated when we breathe. In two thousand 19, several teams of scientists found that most of the neural activity in perception areas like the visual cortex was in coding information about the animals movements rather than sensory inputs.

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