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
brain’s complexity as well. It allows her viewers to see how a child understands right from wrong. As a child grows their perception of situations are not always accurate until their right temporal center is fully developed. Her study gives the audience a concrete example of how different ages think differently about situations. Secondly, Rebecca says adults right temporal junction are not all in the same developmental stage.
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
minds. Lastly, Rebecca uses logic to discusses casual role, to explain how adults think differently about situations considering both adult brains are specialized. Rebecca creates a great study that asks her audience to think logically, stating, “Grace making coffee for her friend and puts deadly poison in it, but the friend does not die. Grace makes coffee for her friend and puts sugar in it, but it turns out to be poison and her friend dies. The question Rebecca asks is in what situation should Grace get in more trouble for”? The results from her audience revealed that adults took extremely different views by saying it was an accident to blaming Grace. Then Rebecca applies TMS to the right temporal junction and shows how judgements can be prepped to change. Showing how complex the human mind really is. In Rebecca’s talk “How We Read Each Other’s Minds” she precisely explains to her audience how to understand the human mind. She does this by talking about how we think about other people’s thoughts, observation of others, and the difference between people and how we judge others. She uses logic and precisely shows through study’s the differences in this brain region of individuals to explain why human minds think differently.