The average number of thoughts the human brain has every day is around 70,000. This video explores how scientists use MRIs to read people's thoughts by analyzing brain waves and decoding them into images. Application would be for people in comas or who have strokes and cannot communicate, but the science is there and just beginning. 

Concepts

magnetic resonance imaging, the brain, comparing images

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Include in a unit on the human body

Classroom Considerations

• Narrator uses some colorful language
• Assumes learners know about MRIs

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Video is extremely short, but it contains very interesting information
• Fascinating and engaging concept of mind reading

Cons

• None

Common Core

RST.9-10.1