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From the Ted Talk by Greg Gage: How to control someone else's arm with your brain

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Well, you have about 80 billion neurons inside your brain right now. They're sending electrical messages back and forth, and chemical messages. But some of your nnroues right here in your motor cortex are going to send messages down when you move your arm like this. They're going to go down across your crupos callosum, down onto your spinal cord to your lower motor neuron out to your muscles here, and that electrical disagrhce is going to be picked up by these electrodes right here and we're going to be able to lisetn to exactly what your brain is going to be doing. So I'm going to turn this on for a second.

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Well, you have about 80 billion neurons inside your brain right now. They're sending electrical messages back and forth, and chemical messages. But some of your _______ right here in your motor cortex are going to send messages down when you move your arm like this. They're going to go down across your ______ callosum, down onto your spinal cord to your lower motor neuron out to your muscles here, and that electrical _________ is going to be picked up by these electrodes right here and we're going to be able to ______ to exactly what your brain is going to be doing. So I'm going to turn this on for a second.

Solution

  1. listen
  2. corpus
  3. discharge
  4. neurons

Original Text

Well, you have about 80 billion neurons inside your brain right now. They're sending electrical messages back and forth, and chemical messages. But some of your neurons right here in your motor cortex are going to send messages down when you move your arm like this. They're going to go down across your corpus callosum, down onto your spinal cord to your lower motor neuron out to your muscles here, and that electrical discharge is going to be picked up by these electrodes right here and we're going to be able to listen to exactly what your brain is going to be doing. So I'm going to turn this on for a second.

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  8. cortex
  9. discharge
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  11. electrodes
  12. listen
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  15. move
  16. muscles
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