{"id":1267,"date":"2020-01-13T07:54:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T15:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2021-09-01T20:50:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T03:50:25","slug":"244-scott-grafton-neuroscientist-and-brain-imaging-center-director-on-mind-body-connection-in-physical-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/244-scott-grafton-neuroscientist-and-brain-imaging-center-director-on-mind-body-connection-in-physical-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"244: Scott Grafton | Neuroscientist And Brain Imaging Center Director On Mind\/Body Connection In &#8220;Physical Intelligence&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Scott-Grafton.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1268\" width=\"419\" height=\"277\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Our first guest of 2020 is Dr. Scott Grafton, Bedrosian Coyne Presidential Chair in Neuroscience at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of the book <em>Physical Intelligence: The Science of How the Body and the Mind Guide Each Other Through Life<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was great to talk with Dr. Grafton because his book connected with some concepts from some authors\/researchers in past episodes, and described a way of thinking about the physical element of intelligence, and how our motor function is connected with our layers of brain processing. I also went to UCSB, and that is a nice point of similarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Grafton is director of the UCSB Brain Imaging Center and codirector of the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies. He received BA&#8217;s in Mathematics and Psychobiology from the University of California at Santa Cruz and his MD degree from the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Show notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>brain scans and positron emission tomography (PET) for understanding of brain function<\/li><li>Dr. Grafton&#8217;s career, and what led him to brain and motor function research<\/li><li>running the brain imaging center, and how imaging has developed in recent years<\/li><li>where all the action in the brain is located<\/li><li>visual perception, and how the percentage of vision someone gives to an object relates to its importance in a broad perspective<\/li><li>how it is difficult to maneuver over rocks, and to create robots that would walk across rough rocks<\/li><li>body schema, as it compares with attention schema theory, for physical sensation<\/li><li>the way that practicing something in your mind connects with ability to do the motor action<\/li><li>how the brain creates synergies of muscle movements<\/li><li>how babies have plasticity, and take risks in order to understand their physical environment from scratch<\/li><li>how nature serves as a medicine to people and their well-being<\/li><li>the way that entropy is key to a healthy life, and how one does not benefit from distancing from entropic conditions<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"244: Scott Grafton | The Connection Between Mind And Body In &quot;Physical Intelligence&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2BNqUEF3uNc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can check out Dr. Grafton&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psych.ucsb.edu\/people\/faculty\/scott-grafton\">faculty page<\/a>, or check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Physical-Intelligence-Science-Guide-Through\/dp\/1524747327\">Physical Intelligence on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Physical-Intelligence.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1269\" width=\"226\" height=\"341\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3000\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1267-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/thearmenshow\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/episodes\/tas244scottgrafton.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/thearmenshow\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/episodes\/tas244scottgrafton.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/thearmenshow\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/episodes\/tas244scottgrafton.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/thearmenshow\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/episodes\/tas244scottgrafton.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/?powerpress_pinw=1267-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/thearmenshow\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/episodes\/tas244scottgrafton.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"tas244scottgrafton.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first guest of 2020 is Dr. Scott Grafton, Bedrosian Coyne Presidential Chair in Neuroscience at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of the book Physical Intelligence: The Science of How the Body and the Mind Guide Each Other Through Life. It was great to talk with Dr. Grafton because his book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[176,117,175],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","tag-brain-imaging-center","tag-research","tag-ucsb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}