How does the brain build new thoughts?

ByVanity Mirror

"Joe Biden(Vice President of the United States)Vladimir PutinEven if you read a crazy sentence that you have won the board game in a game, "human beings can imagine such a situation. This is because if you know the meaning of "Joe Biden", "Vladimir Putin" and "Board Game", the brain is to combine words to understand the meaning of sentences, but so far Papers studied by psychologists at Harvard University have been published about the mechanism by which the brain constructs no thought.

How the brain builds new thoughts | Harvard Gazette
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/10/how-the-brain-builds-new-thoughts/


Mr. Joshua Green, who is engaged in research on experimental psychology, neuroscience and philosophy at Harvard University, created a new thought by the human brain working similar to the mechanism of silicon computer using variables and change values It showed that it is.

According to a paper published by Mr. Green and others in the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the brain says "What was done?" "Who went (Who)" "Who did you do? It is said that we are constructing the thought that is requested by variableizing a plurality of concepts "). When asked for the idea that "Biden won the game in Putin" as an example, the brain "variable" from the "action" variable, "Biden (Who)" to " ) "Variable from" Poin (To Whom) "to" Parent (Patient) ", even in situations where there is no crazing, building each word in the brain It is said that there is.

Mr. Green 's research team succeeded in identifying areas of the brain that encode such spiritual grammar. The research team asked the students to read a series of simple sentences that would make new thinking, such as "a dog chased a man", "a man followed a dog", and the brain's response while reading a simple sentence I scanned with MRI. As a result, it turned out that the two regions in the temporal lobe responded to the words representing the "actioner" and "the evictor" in the single sentence. It is understood that the area located at the center of the head is the operator and the area located closer to the ears is processing the information on "the lord".

ByAmber Case

According to Steven Frank of collaborative research author, "An important discovery is that the brain reuses the pattern of thought once constructed," the dog chased the man "," The dog scratched the man "2 Even if one verb tells a different sentence, "Dog" is memorizing patterns that are the main actor. "

In other words, every time we build a new thinking, we create a reusable formula, which means that human thinking abilities are unique and powerful. The "imagination" that we normally do casually is done more complicated process than was thought possible.