How We Read Each Other's Minds Summary

In Rebecca’s Ted Talk “How We Read Each Other’s Minds” she successfully states problems of minds. Rebecca’s says understanding special brain regions, late developing, and causal role, gives one an understanding of the human mind. Firstly, Rebecca says the right temporal junction is the special brain region that helps adults understand other minds well. However, adult brains are more developed than a child’s brain. She does a great job at giving a good understanding to the audience by explaining the right temporal junction of the human mind. She goes into depth and talks about the specialized brain of an adult and compares it to the undeveloped brain of a child. She explains this precisely by comparing and contrasting test results of a study between adults and children. In the study she performs the same scenario for both trials. Allowing one to see how the adult mind verses the mind of a child sees right from wrong. This reveals a clear vision to her audience by showing the differences in the
While expanding on this subject she further explains late developing brains. She says late developing shows that the right temporal junction is not specialized until adulthood, but grows as we develop. She states in her talk that at age five a child begins to understand right from wrong, however a three-year-old mind cannot. She uses a TMS to show what is going on in their minds and it reveals how the cognitive systems are still unspecialized, which explains children’s thought processes. By Rebecca using a TMS, it gives her audience valid proof of how the mind change throughout time. She explains this by using a chart showing statics of three different age groups, which gives her listeners a good understanding. She does a great job enlightening her audience by explaining how a child’s brain is under development so it preps them to think differently about other