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Social media is a fascinating new human phenomenon and when we look at it deeply from a brain point of view,
I social media sono un nuovo affascinante fenomeno umano e, se lo osserviamo a fondo dal punto di vista del cervello,
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when we start with the foundation that the brain is actually the social organ of the body,
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we can understand why social media and and brain functions would go hand in hand.
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That is, the reason social media took off in this last 10 years is
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because the brain is social and people really want to connect with each other.
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And then, once social media was designed and keeps on creating itself, then the social media, in fact,
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is going to be shaping the brain so that the brain is responsive to culture.
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And in one of our research centers at UCLA, what we're able to show is that cultural experiences,
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that is messages sent out in society that are mediated through communication, either one-on-one or mass media communication,
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actually shape the actual structure of the brain.
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And so it's a two-way street.
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The brain created social media, and social media shapes the brain.
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One of the simple things I think
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that social media does is it brings us back at least to a feeling on one level
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that we're having the connections that we evolved to have.
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It's a great question, you know, is social media replacing our relationships or is it adding to it?
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From a brain point of view, the difference between let's say email and social media versus face to face interaction is very interesting.
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So studies for example that have shown what it's like
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when you actually are with someone face to face where you have eye contact, you're sharing facial expressions, there's a tone The tone of voice you can hear,
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the posture of the person, the gestures, the timing of what they do, the intensity of what they respond with.
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Those seven signals, and those are eye contact, facial expression, tone of voice, posture, gestures, timing, intensity.
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If you memorize those, it's really useful because then you'll see what texting, what email, and what most social media actually is lacking.
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Now, when you look at what area of the brain both sends out those non-verbal signals
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and receives them and makes sense of them, it's the right hemisphere of the brain.
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And the right hemisphere of the brain is much more closely connected to the lower regions, so the higher right areas are connected to the lower regions of the brain
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and those lower regions work with the body itself to create our emotions, to give us the felt texture of lived life.
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So one deep concern that I have as a developmental theorist
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and a developmental clinician is is that the more and more people spend time not using non-verbal signals,
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and instead use mostly verbal ones, that is, text with language that has this linear way of being distributed,
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you're activating primarily your left hemisphere, which in the brain is much more distant from the lower areas that help mediate emotion with the body.
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And even autobiographical memory is dominant on the right side, so you're much more into just logistics.
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Even thinking about how people are gonna care about you
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or like you is a left brain thing
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which is fascinating it's called social display rules
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so from a hemisphere point of view what i'm deeply concerned about is
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if social media email texting are not actually getting people more face-to-face time with each other
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or getting them in touch with even what's going on inside
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of them then the new generation will be much more used to a very surface level of experiencing the world.
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So there's nothing inherently wrong with social media, but if it is replacing time for face-to-face,
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then that could be a big problem.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello C1 si basa sul video “How Social Media Is Rewiring Our Brains”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: brain, hemisphere, lower, verbal, signals. Questo video contiene 40 frasi e 638 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:05. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 156 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 87% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 13 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| hemisphere sostantivo | /ˈhɛmɪsfɪə/ | emisfero |
| verbal aggettivo | /ˈvɜː.bəl/ | verbale |
| mediate verbo | /ˈmidieɪt/ | mediare |
| gesture sostantivo | /ˈd͡ʒɛs.t͡ʃɚ/ | gesto |
| autobiographical aggettivo | /ˌɑtoʊˌbaɪəˈɡɹæfəkəl/ | autobiografico |
| clinician sostantivo | /klɪˈnɪʃən/ | clinico |
| memorize verbo | /ˈmɛm.əˌɹaɪ̯z/ | memorizzare, imparare a memoria |
| theorist sostantivo | /ˈθiːəɹəst/ | teorico |
| inherently avverbio | /ɪnˈhɛɹəntli/ | intrinsecamente |
| responsive aggettivo | /ɹɪˈspɑn.sɪv/ | sensibile |
| distribute verbo | /dɪˈstɹɪbjuːt/ | distribuire |
| logistics sostantivo | /ləˈd͡ʒɪstɪks/ | logistica |
| texture sostantivo | /ˈtɛkst͡ʃə(ɹ)/ | texture |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| send out verbo | inviare |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 8 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, we're, gonna. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: developmental /dɪˌvɛləpˈmɛntəl/, autobiographical /ˌɑtoʊˌbaɪəˈɡɹæfəkəl/, inherently /ɪnˈhɛɹəntli/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: hemisphere /ˈhɛmɪsfɪə/, inherently /ɪnˈhɛɹəntli/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: fascinate /ˈfæsɪneɪt/, mediate /ˈmidieɪt/, memorize /ˈmɛm.əˌɹaɪ̯z/, theorist /ˈθiːəɹəst/, responsive /ɹɪˈspɑn.sɪv/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: fascinate /ˈfæsɪneɪt/, autobiographical /ˌɑtoʊˌbaɪəˈɡɹæfəkəl/, activate /ˈæktɪˌveɪt/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come hemisphere, verbal, mediate.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.