Ideas worth spreading

515,328 views | Ariel Garten • TEDxToronto 2011

Know thyself, with a brain scanner

Imagine playing a video game controlled by your mind. Now imagine that game also teaches you about your own patterns of stress, relaxation and focus. Ariel Garten shows how looking at our own brain activity gives new meaning to the ancient dictum "know thyself."

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Imagine playing a video game controlled by your mind. Now imagine that game also teaches you about your own patterns of stress, relaxation and focus. Ariel Garten shows how looking at our own brain activity gives new meaning to the ancient dictum "know thyself."

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxToronto 2011, an independent event. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Read more about TEDx.

About the speaker

Artist, scientist and entrepreneur

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As CEO of InteraXon, Ariel Garten works to close the gap between science, art, business and technology.

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