Enhance Your Learning Speed & Health Using Neuroscience Based Protocols | Dr. Poppy Crum
Summary
Neuroscientist Dr. Poppy Crum explores the profound impact of technology on neuroplasticity, revealing how our brains are constantly reshaped by digital interactions, even influencing our sensory thresholds and communication styles. She demonstrates how AI, from self-testing tools to smart environmental controls and digital twins, can enhance learning, athletic performance, and overall well-being. Dr. Crum also highlights the crucial distinction between using technology to augment cognitive skills versus merely replacing them, while sharing fascinating examples from nature's acoustic battles and primate communication.Episode description
My guest is Dr. Poppy Crum, PhD, adjunct professor at Stanford, former Chief Scientist at Dolby Laboratories and expert in neuroplasticity—our brain’s ability to change in response to experience. She explains how you can learn faster and ways to leverage your smartphone, AI and even video games to do so. We also discuss “digital twins” and the future of health technology. This episode will change the way you think about and use technology and will teach you zero-cost protocols to vastly improve your learning, health and even your home environment.
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Timestamps
(0:00) Poppy Crum
(2:22) Neuroplasticity & Limits; Homunculus
(8:06) Technology; Environment & Hearing Thresholds; Absolute Pitch
(13:12) Sponsors: David & Helix Sleep
(15:33) Texting, Homunculus, Mapping & Brain; Smartphones
(23:06) Technology, Data Compression, Communication, Smartphones & Acronyms
(30:32) Sensory Data & Bayesian Priors; Video Games & Closed Loop Training
(40:51) Improve Swim Stroke, Analytics & Enhancing Performance, Digital Twin
(46:17) Sponsors: AGZ by AG1 & Rorra
(49:08) Digital Twin; Tool: Learning, AI & Self-Testing
(53:00) AI: Increase Efficacy or Replace Task?, AI & Germane Cognitive Load
(1:02:07) Bread, Process & Appreciation; AI to Optimize Physical Environments
(1:09:43) Awake States & AI; Measure & Modify
(1:16:37) Wearables, Sensors & Measure Internal State; Pupil Size (Pupillometry)
(1:23:58) Sponsor: Function
(1:25:46) Integrative Systems, Body & Environment; Cognitive State & Decision-Making
(1:32:11) Gamification, Developing Good Habits
(1:38:17) Implications of AI, Diminishing Cognitive Skill
(1:41:11) Digital Twins & Examples, Digital Representative; Feedback Loops
(1:50:59) Customize AI; Situational Intelligence, Blind Spots, Work & Health, “Hearables”
(2:01:08) Career Journey, Perception & Technology; Violin, Absolute Pitch
(2:09:44) Incentives & Neuroplasticity; Technology & Performance
(2:13:59) Acoustic Arms Race: Moths, Bats & Echolocation
(2:21:17) Singing to Spiders, Spider Web & Environment Detection; Crickets; Marmosets
(2:31:44) Acknowledgements
(2:33:18) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter
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