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How the Brain Works — Revised Edition

The revised full documentary, with clearer explanations, rebuilt kitchen sequences and corrected scientific diagrams. Signals, living tissue, memory, development, disease, interventions, brain mapping and conscious experience.

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This full-film edition brings together the films below. Open an episode for its research references, visual sources, and music credits.

Chapter 3

The Living Tissue

Chapter 3 of How the Brain Works: The Living Tissue.

15 min

Compilation credits

Editorial assembly, explanatory animations, chapter titles, and transitions: Documentary Heaven.

Source record for the revised edition. This film retains the chapter research and third-party sources linked above. The following addendum identifies its ten corrected scientific animations, reused image components, new kitchen reconstruction, music and supporting scientific references. Narration is text-to-speech; editorial direction is by Anders Lunde.

  • Temporal-cortex comparison in consciousness experiments

    AgentHouse / Documentary Heaven

    Custom scientific animation revised for this edition. Third-party components retain the source credits and licences listed on this page and the chapter pages.

  • Cochlear mechanics and hair-cell signalling

    AgentHouse / Documentary Heaven

    Custom scientific animation revised for this edition. Third-party components retain the source credits and licences listed on this page and the chapter pages.

  • Broca's patients and the evidence for specialized brain functions

    AgentHouse / Documentary Heaven

    Custom scientific animation revised for this edition. Third-party components retain the source credits and licences listed on this page and the chapter pages.

  • Consciousness evidence: revised cortical comparisons

    AgentHouse / Documentary Heaven

    Custom scientific animation revised for this edition. Third-party components retain the source credits and licences listed on this page and the chapter pages.

  • Consciousness theories: revised cortical comparisons

    AgentHouse / Documentary Heaven

    Custom scientific animation revised for this edition. Third-party components retain the source credits and licences listed on this page and the chapter pages.

  • Sound-to-nerve signalling in the concluding sequence

    AgentHouse / Documentary Heaven

    Custom scientific animation revised for this edition. Third-party components retain the source credits and licences listed on this page and the chapter pages.

  • Auditory-cortex cutaway: connected brain regions

    AgentHouse / Documentary Heaven

    Custom scientific animation revised for this edition. Third-party components retain the source credits and licences listed on this page and the chapter pages.

  • Auditory-cortex cutaway: recognition and memory

    AgentHouse / Documentary Heaven

    Custom scientific animation revised for this edition. Third-party components retain the source credits and licences listed on this page and the chapter pages.

  • Auditory-cortex cutaway: attention and electrode recordings

    AgentHouse / Documentary Heaven

    Custom scientific animation revised for this edition. Third-party components retain the source credits and licences listed on this page and the chapter pages.

  • Auditory-cortex cutaway: evidence of conscious responses

    AgentHouse / Documentary Heaven

    Custom scientific animation revised for this edition. Third-party components retain the source credits and licences listed on this page and the chapter pages.

  • Journey of Sound to the Brain

    NIH/NIDCD

    View original source ↗Source licence: Public domain (official NIDCD page statement)

    Ear image incorporated into a revised animation with explanatory overlays and new narration timing.

  • Cerveau de Louis Victor Leborgne dit Tantan 2

    Selbymay

    View original source ↗Source licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

    Unannotated photograph resized and placed on a slate background. The photograph and its adaptation remain under CC BY-SA 4.0.

  • [Exposition universelle de Paris, 1900, et portraits de célébrités] / Collection Félix Potin

    Pierre Petit; Collection Félix Potin / Gallica

    View original source ↗Source licence: Public domain

    Portrait resized without anatomical annotation.

  • Subdural grid on cortical surface, original PLOS Figure2

    Edwin van Dellen, Linda Douw, Johannes C. Baayen, Jan J. Heimans, Sophie C. Ponten, W. Peter Vandertop, Demetrios N. Velis, Cornelis J. Stam, Jaap C. Reijneveld

    View original source ↗Source licence: Creative Commons Attribution

    Existing image presentation retained within the revised explanatory animation.

  • Owen Lecturing

    Martin.R.Coleman

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    Existing image presentation retained within the revised explanatory animation.

  • Philips MRI scanner at Sahlgrenska University Hospital

    Jan Ainali

    View original source ↗Source licence: CC BY 3.0

    Existing image presentation retained within the revised explanatory animation.

  • CDC ADDM 2022 autism prevalence by surveillance site

    U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    View original source ↗Source licence: U.S. federal public-domain default, subject to item credits

    Incorporated into an explanatory animation; presentation may include cropping, labels and overlays.

    CDC material is available free at https://www.cdc.gov/autism/articles/prevalence-varies-across-us-communities.html. Use of CDC material does not imply endorsement by CDC, HHS or the U.S. Government.

  • Kitchen reconstruction: turn, arrival and reply

    AgentHouse / Documentary Heaven

    AI-generated illustrative reconstruction using MiniMax H3 Max Turbo, edited into three action units and an intentional freeze. The people and remembered conversation illustrate the explanation.

  • Meditation From The Star Orion

    OctahedronMusic

    View original source ↗Source licence: Envato Elements project licence

  • Paper

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  • NIDCD hearing account

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  • Scientific source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-03773-y

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  • Scientific source: https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/news/multimedia/sciart-synapses-connect-inner-ear-hair-cells-auditory-nerve

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  • Scientific source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19521-2

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  • Berkeley-hosted PDF

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  • Scientific source: https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/sites/default/files/Documents/health/voice/Aphasia.pdf

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  • Scientific source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6623669/

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  • Scientific source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23891882/

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  • Scientific source: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11020

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Episode-intro bronze strike and intra-section page-turn sound: channel production assets.

How this film was made

Created and editorially directed by Anders Lunde using a custom production system developed over six months. AI assists research, drafting, programming, and visual production; I review and edit the material and make the final editorial decisions. Narration uses text-to-speech. Visuals combine custom-built scientific animations, AI-generated reconstructions, and credited scientific imagery.

Generated reconstructions illustrate scientific interpretations. They are distinct from photographs, specimens, and measured data.

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