Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other’s minds

Quoting Alan Greenspan:
“I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I’m not sure you realize what you heard is not what I meant.”

It’s natural for humans to learn to sense feelings and motives. Rebecca Saxe discovered an exclusive region in our brain used to read the thoughts and feelings of others. From a TED Talk series video, Rebecca Saxe talks about this brain region and shares lab work from Saxelab at MIT in Cambridge, MA.

Our artistic works are about communicating emotion. This is potentially important scientific work for learning how to better connect with others.