#8 TED Talk

Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds

https://www.ted.com/talks/rebecca_saxe_how_brains_make_moral_judgments#t-187311


Speaker : 
Rebecca Saxe
Rebecca Saxe studies how we think about other people's thoughts. At the Saxelab at MIT, she uses fMRI to identify what happens in our brains when we consider the motives, passions and beliefs of others

Vocabulary :

1. Consequence (結果) :something that happens as a result of a particular action or set of conditions

Example : Many believe that poverty is a direct consequence of overpopulation.

2. moral (道德) : based on your ideas about what is right, rather than on what is legal or practical

Example : It is easy to have an opinion on a moral issue like the death penalty for murder.

3.adolescence (青春期) : the time, usually between the ages of 12 and 18, when a young person is developing into an adult

Example: During adolescence, boys are sometimes very shy and lacking in self-confidence.

4. permissible(允許的) : allowed by law or by the rules  

Example :  As long as any advert does not bring the profession into disreputenor is in bad taste then it is permissible.

5.poison(毒) : a substance that can cause death or serious illness if you eat it, drink it etc

Example :  He swallowed some type of poison.

My comment :
It's a very interesting TED to talk about how brain thinks about peoples' thoought , she research many kind of age , cheer, background ect. and research prove that people  learned to hinks about peoples' thoought in childhood and teenage to  adult  . She  research  a very influential science to change a people  moral judgment ,but I think each person is especial and unique,so  difficult to learn one's thought , that many misunderstand to people .