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Enhance Your Learning Speed & Health Using Neuroscience Based Protocols | Dr. Poppy Crum

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Enhance Your Learning Speed & Health Using Neuroscience Based Protocols | Dr. Poppy Crum

Huberman Lab

Sep 29

Enhance Your Learning Speed & Health Using Neuroscience Based Protocols | Dr. Poppy Crum

Enhance Your Learning Speed & Health Using Neuroscience Based Protocols | Dr. Poppy Crum

Huberman Lab

Huberman Lab

Sep 29

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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 y...

Highlights

In this episode, Dr. Poppy Crum explores how emerging technologies are reshaping the human brain and transforming the way we learn, communicate, and interact with our environment. Drawing from neuroscience, AI, and sensory research, she reveals how tools like wearables, digital twins, and smart environments can harness neuroplasticity to enhance cognitive performance and well-being.

05:38

Technology use directly influences brain structure and function.

11:01

Absolute pitch is not fixed; the standard for musical notes like A has changed over time due to aesthetic and technical evolution.

21:20

A dead phone leaves users feeling drained, while a powered one brings a sense of being alive through connection.

23:19

Texting acronyms act like lossy compression, triggering rich cognitive experiences with minimal data.

37:09

Playing 40 hours of Call of Duty improves contrast sensitivity and probabilistic inference.

43:25

AI can democratize access to high-end performance data, making elite-level analytics available to everyday athletes.

51:46

AI identifies learning gaps and tailors tests to improve memory through targeted feedback

58:44

LLMs reduce germane cognitive load, impairing schema formation

1:08:01

Heating at the end of night boosts REM sleep, cooling at start increases deep sleep

1:15:54

Autonomous vehicles can resolve traffic issues caused by human behavior

1:16:38

CO2 in breath can indicate emotional state, demonstrated through stress responses during movie watching.

1:25:48

Earbuds can measure heart rate, blood oxygen, and attention levels.

1:32:11

Training can be fun and effective when merged with technology to optimize learning.

1:38:19

AI agents may increase revenue but reduce workforce cognitive skills over time.

1:47:05

Digital twins are about digitizing relevant data for decision-making, not replicating people.

1:57:27

Voice patterns can reveal early signs of diabetes, heart disease, and neural degeneration

2:06:52

Auditory neurons' dendrites realign in owls when visual input is shifted by prisms, proving cross-modal neuroplasticity

2:10:02

The brain's plasticity under pressure enables rapid formation of new neural maps in response to technological change.

2:19:43

Oliver Sacks imagined being a bat to better understand patients with severe neurological conditions

2:21:17

Orb spiders tune their webs to 880 hertz to detect echolocating bats

2:31:45

Neuroplasticity is the key interface between inputs and humans

Chapters

Poppy Crum

00:00

Neuroplasticity & Limits; Homunculus

02:22

Technology; Environment & Hearing Thresholds; Absolute Pitch

08:06

Sponsors: David & Helix Sleep

13:12

Texting, Homunculus, Mapping & Brain; Smartphones

15:33

Technology, Data Compression, Communication, Smartphones & Acronyms

23:06

Sensory Data & Bayesian Priors; Video Games & Closed Loop Training

30:32

Improve Swim Stroke, Analytics & Enhancing Performance, Digital Twin

40:51

Sponsors: AGZ by AG1 & Rorra

46:17

Digital Twin; Tool: Learning, AI & Self-Testing

49:08

AI: Increase Efficacy or Replace Task?, AI & Germane Cognitive Load

53:00

Bread, Process & Appreciation; AI to Optimize Physical Environments

1:02:07

Awake States & AI; Measure & Modify

1:09:43

Wearables, Sensors & Measure Internal State; Pupil Size (Pupillometry)

1:16:37

Sponsor: Function

1:23:58

Integrative Systems, Body & Environment; Cognitive State & Decision-Making

1:25:46

Gamification, Developing Good Habits

1:32:11

Implications of AI, Diminishing Cognitive Skill

1:38:17

Digital Twins & Examples, Digital Representative; Feedback Loops

1:41:11

Customize AI; Situational Intelligence, Blind Spots, Work & Health, “Hearables”

1:50:59

Career Journey, Perception & Technology; Violin, Absolute Pitch

2:01:08

Incentives & Neuroplasticity; Technology & Performance

2:09:44

Acoustic Arms Race: Moths, Bats & Echolocation

2:13:59

Singing to Spiders, Spider Web & Environment Detection; Crickets; Marmosets

2:21:17

Acknowledgements

2:31:44

Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter

2:33:18

Transcript

Andrew Huberman: Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life. I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. My guest today is Dr. Poppy...