Summary of La percepción en nuestro cerebro IV

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The video explains the role of perception in our brain. It discusses how different parts of the brain may work together to create a perception. The doctor leading this research, Antonio Damasio, believes that this process may happen in a "convergence harmonic" way.

• 00:00:00 The senses of taste, smell, and sight are all important in our sense of smell. Music is often perceived as less mathematically accurate than other forms of auditory perception, such as hearing. Perceiving music as poetry rather than simply an interpretation of what was heard may be due to the comfort of certain familiar surroundings. However, this does not seem to matter much in the grand scheme of things. I tried this out and found that a citrus scent, which evokes a very vigorous feeling, as well as ciders containing fruits, have a lot of ingredients in common. Perfumers know the power of a scent's essence, in the world of human perception, the sense of smell tends to take a secondary role. After all, we walk upright with our nose far away from the ground, but every time we smell a certain perfume, memories of a past love come alive to me, as if it has no meaning at all to the sense of smell. The sense of smell evolves earliest of all the senses, in the womb. Fragrances that are sensed by the mother during her pregnancy are detected by the baby's nose in the amniotic fluid. Perhaps a newborn baby is already attaching itself to its mother through the nose, obtaining
• 00:05:00 The video explains how our brains use memories to determine what to eat. It discusses the theory that different parts of the brain may work together to create a perception. The doctor leading this research, Antonio Damasio, believes that this process may happen in a "convergence harmonic" way.