Why Humans and Robots must Dream

About this episode

The episode discusses how the brain's visual cortex adapts to sensory input and the implications for human-robot interaction.

Send us Fan Mail Put a blindfold on a sighted adult and the visual cortex starts being colonised by touch and hearing within forty-five minutes. Not weeks. Not days. Forty-five minutes. This is not a quirk of extreme cases. It is how the cortex works all the time. Every region of the brain is in continuous low-grade negotiation with its neighbours over territory, and the currency of that negotiation is activity. Stop using a subsystem and the neighbours move in, fast. This is the empirical fo...

People in this episode

Host: David Such

Topics covered

• brain function
• neuroscience
• human-robot interaction
• cortex activity
• sensory perception

Keywords

• visual cortex
• touch
• hearing
• neuroscience
• brain adaptation

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