Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago
What did you do in the few seconds before reading this? Sit down and take out your phone? Scroll through some YouTube videos? Take a sip of a drink? While we think of these things as very simple actions - requiring hardly any thought at all - there are actually many complex processes taking place in your brain when they happen. These processes allow you to perfectly time each action, as neuroscientist Dr Nima Khalighinejad explains.
Subtítulos en español: Eva Meseguer Walker, Carolina Bouso Díaz y Patricia Valero Felipe. Con la supervisión de Laura González Fernández (Facultad de Traducción y Documentación, Universidad de Salamanca, España).
What did you do in the few seconds before reading this? Sit down and take out your phone? Scroll through some YouTube videos? Take a sip of a drink? While we think of these things as very simple actions - requiring hardly any thought at all - there are actually many complex processes taking place in your brain when they happen. These processes allow you to perfectly time each action, as neuroscientist Dr Nima Khalighinejad explains.
Subtítulos en español: Eva Meseguer Walker, Carolina Bouso Díaz y Patricia Valero Felipe. Con la supervisión de Laura González Fernández (Facultad de Traducción y Documentación, Universidad de Salamanca, España).
