This is your brain on Lego

[nerdsforprez]

Hey All,

Lego really is so diverse. From artistic to technical, right-brained to left-brained, there is something for all of us. Artsy..... yet numerical and mathematic at the same time. As a practicing neuropsychologist, this is of incredible interest to me.

Here is a LDD rendition of what the brain might look like when building with Lego if scanned with a PET scanner. Youtube video is much more accurate.....in that it produces more of a video-like rendering of the brain than a static picture. More information at:

http://mocpages.com/moc.php/427329

Edited April 5, 2016 by nerdsforprez

[Borex]

Funny

[Forresto]

That's amazing!

[Junior Shark]

Interesting. You say "might look like"- would Lego stimulate those areas of the brain that you depict in your video? And if no one knows what the brain looks like on Lego- you're the neuropsychologist, couldn't you figure it out?

[nerdsforprez]

I say "might" because our interpretation of PET scans, and any functional imaging is so hypothetical at this point. Even though there are certain areas of the brain that are responsible for certain things..... the overall amount of what those areas are vary from person to person. In addition, I think that most would think that building Lego is mostly a right-brained activity. Artistic, holistic, full of visuo-spatial reasoning and activity. However, I think building Lego (especially Technic) is also very logistic, sequential, and verbal, and therefore I believe the left hemisphere would be used quite a bit as well (and therefore that is why I show so much activity in the left hemisphere..... PET images, in interpretation, just like everything else in the brain, are reversed. Left is the right and vice versa).

[Junior Shark]

I say "might" because our interpretation of PET scans, and any functional imaging is so hypothetical at this point. Even though there are certain areas of the brain that are responsible for certain things..... the overall amount of what those areas are vary from person to person. In addition, I think that most would think that building Lego is mostly a right-brained activity. Artistic, holistic, full of visuo-spatial reasoning and activity. However, I think building Lego (especially Technic) is also very logistic, sequential, and verbal, and therefore I believe the left hemisphere would be used quite a bit as well (and therefore that is why I show so much activity in the left hemisphere..... PET images, in interpretation, just like everything else in the brain, are reversed. Left is the right and vice versa).

Thanks for the response. I'm clearly ignorant when it comes to brain stuff (but I did know the left/right reversal thing ). Thinking out loud: maybe Lego's appeal is in its ability to engage both sides of the brain?

[nerdsforprez]

Thanks for the response. I'm clearly ignorant when it comes to brain stuff (but I did know the left/right reversal thing ). Thinking out loud: maybe Lego's appeal is in its ability to engage both sides of the brain?

completely agree. If fact, I think TLG should contact some medical or research group to conduct such a study.....i think they would find just that. And that would be great news for them.

Funny... But elsewhere that I have posted this(mocpages) I have had some very funny/insightful requests. What would light up if one were to step on a Lego??? Lol.....i think that would be great. Or what about the addiction center of our brain. Shouldn't that light up as well?? Yes! Perhaps I will do a series of brains with all this happening. Any other requests??

[Junior Shark]

A Lego-addicted person's reaction to this video: