The following is a presentation of TFNN. The morning market kickoff with your host, Tommy O'Brien. Good Monday morning everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien, coming to you live from TFNN. Just after 9 a.m. Eastern time, we got about 24 minutes to go until the start of trading. And a little bit of a different pickup right now is the second trading day of December. Friday kicked things off. We finished in dramatically higher prices. 4607, that price point on the S&Ps. And where are we trading right now? Negative. By about 6-10%, we're off by 30 points right now. We just got a little bit of an acceleration even in the last hour. As the S&Ps are off by 30 points, Nasdaq 100. Excuse me, you see the volatility in both directions. And yeah, we're pushing the lows of Thursday. We're pushing the lows of Friday. You get the Nasdaq 100. Off about 8-10%, you got gold. Off by half a percent, 36,136 in the Russell. Just barely off by one. Point, but we're as high as 1% higher than the Russell. Now, the story of the day could be gold. We'll see how things go, man. Gold got a spike last night to 21.52. I was talking to my dad early this morning. We had a nice pool day with Grandpa yesterday. And yeah, he was saying, I don't know. We'll see how the day goes, man. Not exactly the strongest. And I'll let him talk for himself this afternoon, right?  They took out all those stops. It was up $60. You know, really not when the market was open. Just that first acceleration for 6 o'clock when the future's open. By the time it was 9 o'clock, the move was already gone. And we're actually below that price point right now. We'll see if it carries through. But nonetheless, that is quite a price point for the price of gold. 21.52. Now, it's interesting. You got gold. And what else do you got? You got Bitcoin, man. Bitcoin holding onto the gains. How about 42,000 for Bitcoin? Now, you put this thing on a weekly. Absolutely remarkable when you think about, I mean, what saved the market? Do you remember what saved the market? A banking crisis. What saved Bitcoin? A Ponzi crisis. Pretty remarkable, man. Bitcoin. 42,000. We're coming up to the highs of last year. 48,000. 475. Bitcoin. Quite an acceleration. Back to crude. Chopping around in the 70s. Let's put it back to a 10 minute, 5 minute chart. Why not? You trade lower on Thursday. You trade lower on Friday. We're below that price level. Off by 70 pennies. Crude. 73. 37. You jump to notes and bonds. A little bit of lower price and higher yield to get the 10 year right now. 4.26%. 4.26%. 4.26%. The yield on the 10 year, you're off by 11 ticks. The 30 year is off by 16 ticks. We jump over to the dollar index. The dollar index this morning. Yeah. Pay attention to this one, man, because you keep seeing the dollar doing this. You're going to keep seeing the market go to red. And look at this action right now that we're getting, man. We're at $103.60 almost. $103.57. We were just at $103.30 at 8 in the morning. And that's putting a hurting on gold though. Right? You see the relationship with gold pulling that back. You get a strong dollar. I don't know. We'll see how that all plays out. And if that's the relationship that holds today. Because it's been quite an hour. It's been quite an overnight session. And the market's given up some of the gains as we come into jobs week. We get non-farm payrolls kicking things off on Friday. We get a Fed meeting a week from this Wednesday. Pretty interesting. I know I'm still a little stuffed up. I feel great. Just getting over a little head cold. Little stuffed up every morning. I'll take a little sip of coffee. All right. Where are we going to kick things off? Let's kick it off without a space. Let's kick it off with a lesson in patience. I don't know what it's a lesson in. But it's a lesson in being careful in the markets, man. They're using Galactic. They're trading lower after Branson rules out further investment. Okay. Boy, they should do a movie about this one. They probably will. Maybe maybe we can get some Tigers and Tigers is to write the script itself. Excuse me. There's the article. Come on. We got ads everywhere. Now. So this was in an interview with the Financial Times published Sunday that Branson said his business empire no longer has the deepest pockets in the wake of the COVID-19. He stretched folks. Branson. He stretched. Virgin investments remains the second largest shareholder in Virgin Galactic. 7.7% holding besides behind State Street Global with 8.43.  Wasn't it Chamath? I'm going to pull this up at some of the breakman because didn't Chamath, the SPAC king. I mean, I'm pretty sure he sold like immediately when this thing was at all time highs practically. Yeah. They're in tough shape. I mean, be careful. Okay. I remember one of this thing. They pushed Branson. Do you remember the billionaire race to space was on? Pretty remarkable times. We were living in, man. This thing goes from nothing to a SPAC to 6280 to challenging that high up to 5751 when the market was on fire in 2021. And just like that, we're trading under $2. Yeah. Be careful, man.  So what is this company valued at right now? Under a billion dollars is what this company is valued at right now. Pretty remarkable when you think about being on the frontier space. Be careful of those SPACs. Be careful of everything. Be careful of Chamath. I'm going to pull up some of the articles about him dumping. I wonder what he price he got because it was wild stuff being a founder of these companies and just dumping everything ASAP as they went public. All right. What else we got? Let's talk a little bit of gold, right? Gold source passed 2100 to a new record and analysts don't expect it to stop there. My dad's been talking about 2500. He's a little bit skittish about the way it just made that high, right? If you are like super bullish on gold, it would make sense that you don't want it to cherry pick some high at 6.05 p.m. eastern time on Sunday night when the future is open. You're probably looking for a lot of strength throughout the trading day indicating real strength in that market. Nonetheless, it's higher prices, man. We'll see how today plays out as we got volatility everywhere. But yeah, we're pushing to all-time highs. 2110 per 0.80 per month, excuse me, per ounce on Monday before giving up some of those gains. It's actually back to negative prices right now. And yeah, so keep your eye on this market, boy. Today's going to be an interesting one with the S&P is kind of accelerating to lower prices. Look at this gold contract.  Folks, today's Monday. My dad's going to have a new issue with the Gold Port. 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Boy, my dad, he's got this market pegman. When I was talking to him at 7-8 this morning, gold's already down $25 from there. He was a little skittish in my head. I was like, well, you know, it's not that bad, right? Experience is everything sometimes, folks. We'll see where today plays out with the S&Ps off $32. NASDAQ 100 off by $145 right now. That's 9-tenths percent. And boy, dicey area. Loads of Thursday. Loads of Friday. NASDAQ 100. 15,000. 877. We're coming into jobs on Friday. You got Apple shares down more than a dollar this morning. Microsoft shares down almost $5 this morning. Tesla shares down a few bucks as well. Stay tuned, folks. We've got a lot to talk about. We'll be back with some of the equities that are moving this morning. We'll be right back. If you're looking for potential trading setups in the stock market, then Rocket Equities and Options Report is a newsletter you should try. 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It'd be interesting to see if that actually persists as something we start hearing from more companies. 1,500 employees who will be told Monday. It kind of stinks as news comes out at like, I guess it's got to come out ahead of time. Unfortunate day to be working at Spotify. Almost one out of five workers. Yeah. And that's the third time that they've carried out mass layoffs this year in an effort to shrink costs. Boy, you talk about getting overextended. 1,500 jobs this time. Yeah. And they've been pushing in terms of adding people. They've been in the press with the podcast deal with Rogan, all that stuff, right? Check it out from 387 down to 70 bucks. And it's been a one-way trip to higher price. The market likes that they're trimming their workforce. They're up to almost 193. Now, what you are going to be coming into with Spotify, and you're coming into an area of support, they could prove to be an area of resistance. And that first area is 201, right? So call it 200. Nice round number. 201 was the lows in 2021. Excuse me. So yeah, we'll see where that goes. But nonetheless, another company coming out with cuts. Okay, let's talk a little bit of meta. Zuckerberg selling meta shares for the first time in a couple of years. Yeah, I guess we'll get that. That thing was on quite a trajectory. Got out of that channel line, but still pushing higher. Now we're going to give up some of those gains today with this market continuing to accelerate to negative prices right now. You got meta shares off about $7. Now this story, though, is about Zuckerberg selling for the first time in two years after 172% surge in the stock, $180 million, $185 million in stock in November. And what's important to highlight here, right? So the trust as well as entities for his charitable and political giving have been offloaded at almost 700,000 shares worth, almost 200 million in November, through trading plans. It's the first time entities that manage Zuckerberg's fortune have sold since 2001. He's regularly offloaded blocks of meta stock over the past decade, but didn't sell a single share in 2022. Okay, what happened to the plan? What about that plan they're talking about? Right? Through trading plans. So here's the kicker that's worth highlighting here. I'm just reading through. So CEOs always put trading plans in place, right? And they can cancel them at any time. So it's horribly misleading that Zuckerberg's plan included no sales in this portion of the trading avenue. But when do they include portions to sell in this portion? No, not even in this portion. They include to sell in? Where's November? I can't even highlight it. There we go. That portion, right? So you're able to cherry pick areas that you may see overvaluation and equities. And I mean, check it out. He didn't sell a single share as part of his trading plan in 2000. And is that right? Is that 22? Yeah, that's 22 right there. He didn't sell a single share in that portion of the chart. But you're supposed to believe that there's a trading plan in place so that he's not timing the market. Remember that one. It's just worth saying. Because of course, their time in the market, they can change that plan at any time. And sometimes, okay, you can even put plans in place that basically start almost immediately. Pretty amazing when you look at that. He's back selling shares. Can't fault him. I mean, look at this thing came into COVID at 200. He wouldn't sell a single share below 200 when this thing traded below 200 in every month last year besides January. At one point it touched below 200. What was I going to do it? Interesting nonetheless, right? Interesting is an interesting word. We'll put it that way. We'll jump a little bit of a picture as well. So this one, the billionaire tax rests on a disputed $14,729 refund at the Supreme Court. The headlines here, the sub headline, Progressive Sea Attacks on Assets as easing the deficit inequality. This will likely rule in the midst of a presidential campaign, always nice getting some Supreme Court rulings to spice things up. A little bit of sarcasm, of course. Now, Democratic dreams of imposing a wealth tax on the richest Americans risk being snuffed out by the U.S. Supreme Court in a dispute over a $14,729 bill. Now, this has to do with taxing of assets versus taxing of wealth, right? A billionaire minimum tax, et cetera eased a federal deficit. I am all for taxing wealthier people at a higher level, okay? Excuse me. I know I sound so stuffed up. I'm doing great. What I do this knows I just can't get it out, but I'll get it out soon. I might go for a little run later, try and get it out. Maybe a little, I don't know. Now, what's interesting here, right, is that folks, there's millions of ways that we could tax the wealthy without taxing wealth versus taxing income. Because if you're wealthy enough, you're going to be making a lot of money. And so you can tax income versus wealth. You got to close some of those loopholes. You got to do whatever you got to do. Excuse me, but nonetheless, and the Supreme Court, man, you know, the whole deal with Thomas coming down. Pretty interesting how that all shakes out for what it's worth. But yeah, I don't imagine this one's actually going to happen because that's quite a fine line, right? Versus taxing income versus just taxing on assets. Nonetheless, we jump around. All right, what else we got? We talked about Virgin Galactic. We talked about Metta. Yeah, we got a little bit of airlines. We talked about Spotify and gold. You know, it's pretty interesting in terms of, you got COP28, right, talking about climate change. You have the oil producers running it, talking about no science behind calls for a phase out of fossil fuels. And the bummer of this all is the truth lies somewhere in between. Which I'm putting around here, truth always lies somewhere in between, man. People will get all upset about our oil production and all this stuff, folks. Meanwhile, we're still using, like, 20 million barrels of oil a day. I think we're producing somewhere like 14 or 15. We're not even producing as much oil as we use, of course, because we get them from the Middle East, et cetera. But this whole thing is a mess. You got the thing taking place in Dubai, right?  That's obviously an argument that the truth does lie somewhere in between. But one of the big reasons you got crude, okay, pushing to these prices, when Kevin Hinks talks about it when we speak to him, and it's so true, nobody wants to talk about it. Democrats don't want to talk about the fact that, man, we are producing more oil than ever because they'll get on Greta's bad side out there. 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Watch online at TFNN.com or on TFNN's YouTube channel and become the investor you were born to be. TFNN Educating Investors. Welcome back, folks. We've got markets open. You're looking at an S&P, basically at session lows. As I mentioned, so coming into the opening bell, you traded down to a low of 45, 63. We were at 45, 62, 50 within half a point or where you were on Monday's open. Before you saw the market trade up almost 45 points. So we'll see if we can find a bid yet again. We will find out. Let's jump around. NASDAQ 100, almost a full percent. You actually get below Thursday and Friday. It's low on the open there. NASDAQ 100 could call it the weakest index off more than a full percent right now. Dow off 410 percent. Russell off 310 percent. Crude off about 60 pennies, 73, 49. We keep our eye on gold. Gold off $26 just like that. Crazy. We can get $100 pullback. Who's buying gold last night at 2152? Ouch! Off almost $90 this morning from where we were at that price point.  You got dollar strength, man. Dollar, $103.75. We got dollar strength. What do you got? You got a little bit of lower price and higher yield. So the higher yield, you're talking barely though. You're talking about 4.27. We were at maybe 4.22 in the 10-year. We're at 4.27 percent in the 10-year. We were above 5, right? Three quarters of a percentage point is what we've seen pullback. So, yes, a little bit higher price. But all things considered, there's your daily on the 10-year. Quite a break. Let's just see where we're talking about. We back up to that 3.82 yet? Well, we are. We're pushing the 50 percent. Now, this one's interesting, folks. Where were we talking about? Right? 4.607. I guess we should have traded it. We had this on the chart last week, man. And where did we touch on Friday? Look at that. Look at that. Right? Absolutely remarkable. Then on the chart, and I haven't tweaked the numbers, man, 4607.61 was the 1.618 expansion of the Rip Move Lower from about where that thing started to the day on October 17th to the 10-day run it had on October 27th. The 1.618 expansion brought you to 4607.61. And we made it to 4607.75 within 14 pennies of where we were on Friday. And just like that, you're almost 40 S&P points off of that price level. So quite a turnaround. Usually doesn't peg into the penny. But keep your eye on it. And the other one that we were talking about was potentially 46.34. So maybe there's your area. Maybe you're going to face a little bit of resistance in this area as we go forward through December and come into the year end. Boy, we're getting a little bit of divergence here as you got the S&Ps catch a little bit of a bid. You have the Nasdaq 100 Accelerate to lower price. You got the Russell actually climb to positive prices. And it looks like... Yeah, we got divergence in this market, man. Let's check back on gold. Gold hanging in about 2066 right now. Let's check out the Magnificent 7 Apple off about 8-10% right now. Microsoft. Ooh, what's going on with Microsoft, man? That could be a little bit of a canary there in terms of, boy, there's been no stocks stronger than Microsoft. You got a gap in a way. We're off almost $7. You're off 1.8% from Microsoft. Amazon off 1.5% this morning. We talked about Tesla off 1.3% so far this morning. Nvidia shares off by 2% this morning. Meta shares off by 2.9% this morning. Look at that, right? Let's see. Look at this. So Zuckerberg sold in November. November 1st was 300, I guess. Either way. Meta shares off by 3% to kick things off. Boy, watch out. We got the Nasdaq 100 accelerating a little bit lower. You jump over to Netflix off by 1.3%. Disney off by 8-10%. Let's see how the banks are doing. JP Morgan, negative by 3%. Bank of America off by a percent. We got some airline movement as one of the stories out there going on. Alaska Air has agreed to buy Hawaiian Airlines for almost $2 billion. Let's bring that headline over. So Alaska agrees to buy Hawaiian Airlines, $1.9 billion deal. It's going to have to go through the regulators who've taken a hard stance about mergers. They view as anti-competitive is how they phrase it there. But they're going to pay $18 and that's HA. Is their symbol and they are trading higher? Not bad. Up 182%. Look at that, man. $18 a share and take on $900 million of its debt. They close Friday at $4.86. How about that, man? Am I reading that right? I see. So the $1.9 billion deal. So check out how they do that. The company has a market cap of $250 million, but they got to pay for the debt as well, as well as the company. And so it's almost eight times the value of what the company was trading at. Now you talk about market timing. How's this one for you? You don't think they were watching this chart? 2021, 2022, 2023. You don't think this acceleration from $12 to $5 over the course of June to November made that play out? I mean, you were trading at $18, well over that, at the beginning of 2022. Nonetheless, you have Alaska taking them out, $1.9 billion in Hawaiian. Now, keep in mind, it opens at $13.80. The price is $18. So this thing is not done yet, as there's still a lot of risk premium priced in if it doesn't get done. If it gets done, you make $4. If it doesn't get done, you lose $9. So what does that mean? That means there's almost a 70% chance that the deal gets done, the market's pricing in, something like that. As the S&P finds a little bit of a bid on the open. All right. And what else do we have, folks? For two weeks, we are running our tiger dollar sale. Forgive me. There we go. If you head on over to the front page of TFNN, folks, the TFNN Holiday Tiger Dollar Sale, it's Monday. I talked about gold's making all-time highs. 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First, let's talk a little bit of space, right? These are just wild things when you see them happen. So, Branson's not putting any more money in this thing. The market says, oh, boy, that's not good. We talked about how you get up to 60, 280. Let's see. When did Branson go into space? What was the date? There's maybe so many to know. June of 2023. You got to love it. Okay, right here. First commercial space flight was June 2023, I believe. And that was the first commercial space flight. Okay, the point being, so check out the article I was thinking about. Pay attention when you see headlines like this if they come in the future, folks, okay? This is from March of 2021. Okay. There's March. I'm trying to remember whether I think that was early on that February. That was the race to get into. I got to get these dates because they're two. So, he went in July of 2021 is when Branson did. Okay. Nonetheless, we get back to the Chimoth article. He took the company public in 2019 and it was reported in March of 2021 that he dumped his entire personal stake. He's the chairman. The chairman of the company that took it public dumped his entire personal stake worth almost a quarter billion dollars prior to them going public. Okay. They mentioned he owned almost 16 million shares indirectly through social capital, blah, blah, blah holdings. Who knows what kind of financial games got played since then, by then, who, what was going on there. I would doubt that they, those 16 million shares just got held till Branson was out. Okay. But look at the type of money you're talking about, man. He sold 6.2 million shares. Stock's trading at $2 right now. Those shares are worth $12 million today. What did he get? Almost a quarter billion dollars, $213 million. You ever see a founding member and chairman of a company selling their entire personal stake get on a dodge ASAP, right? And they mentioned he still indirectly owns. I mean, who knows what's going on with some of the financial games. The best part about this article, come on. Where's the quote? Because he is a PR genius. Okay. Yeah, here it is. Why is he doing this? Why is the chairman selling it? It sounds so cynical. Okay. We're not going to, but these are investment lessons, man, that only come from experience. Okay. Because he has got quite a following, right? He was the SPAC pioneer. Okay. He still has quite a following. And this guy is fleecing everybody left and right. Okay. He sells all the shares. He's the chairman. He's the founder. He sells them at a level. I mean, what is that? Above 30 bucks, at least. If you're talking about 6.2 million shares, I mean, what is it exactly? What did he get? $213 divided by 6.2. He got $35 a share for this equity, man. $35. You want to see how often it traded above $35? How about timing the market, man? Right?  He didn't try and peg it at the $62 high. He just made sure he got out well above where it should be trading. Look at that. Look above $35, right? Irrational highs, to say the least. He gets out, sells it all. But the best part is, why is he selling? Why is he selling? He has to tell everybody why he's selling. Well, folks, he's selling, and these are my words, to save humanity, which is basically what he says. Into a large investment I'm making towards fighting climate change, folks. The details of this investment, they're going to be made to the public in the next few months. I'm going to tell you about how I'm going to fight climate change. But just right now, that's why I'm selling all my money in this video. So for what it's worth, man, those articles, I remember them coming out and going, what the heck is going on, man? How is this guy selling all those shares? Because remember, folks, if he owns all those shares, you can take a loan on those shares. You don't have to sell them while he sold them. That's the stock's at $2. Yeah. So anytime, insider trading, very real, okay? Across the board in terms of, yeah, same as FTX, right? He bought himself a lot of time by telling everybody that he was going to donate a billion dollars to this cause, a billion dollars to that cause across the board. Wild stuff, man. And at the time that it's happening, not enough people asking enough questions. And Chamath still got a following that is beyond belief when you think about selling out at $35 to that company. And meanwhile, two years later, it's at $2 and Branson's like, I'm not giving you any more cash. And the company's worth less than a billion dollars. I mean, look at the whole company right now is, what did I just say, $700 million or something like that? $800 million for 400 million shares. He cashed out $6 million shares and got what would have been 25% of the company right now. Yeah, wild stuff after hindsight, of course, 2020, but wild stuff nonetheless. On the geopolitical spectrum, boy, not good headlines coming out over the weekend, man. A U.S. destroyer and commercial vessels were attacked by drones and missiles in the Red Sea. The Iran-backed Houthis forces in Yemen claim responsibility, pointing to Israel's Gaza war. I mean, can you keep track of all the stuff going on in that one sentence, right? You have the Iran-backed forces in Yemen, pointing to Israel's Gaza war and then the Pentagon wants a possible response. Of course, not the headlines you want to see. So say some prayers and send some white light out because whether you're talking about the market or you're talking about humanity, sketchy stuff to say the least. All right, boy, this is not looking good on the NASDAQ 100, man. Amazon off 2.2% right now. Apple off more than a full percent. Microsoft, look at these numbers, right? Amazon's off more than two. Microsoft's off 2.7. Apple's off more than a full percent right now. Netflix shares off more than a full percent at 1.4%. Nvidia shares 3%. Be careful. Let's check out bonds. You got the 10-year right now. Yeah, no real huge move. We're right back to where we were just in about 9 o'clock when we started off the program. Let's check back in on that gold contract. Gold's kind of saving itself of the low kind of open on Friday. We're back to where we were at about 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. You accelerated higher on Friday. You accelerated on that futures open to 2152. Interesting stuff to say the least. We check on crude. Well, we can all appreciate lower prices at the pump. I mean, I don't get it, man. You know, Biden takes so much heat, right, for all the oil. And then oil's pushing a 70 handle and no one wants to talk about it. But politics, very divisive these days. All right, we got one more segment, folks. Don't forget about the tiger dollar sale. We got a three-minute break. I'm coming back to finish up the show. 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Welcome everybody. My name is Chauvre, I'm a professor in Tobuque University, and I teach cognitive psychology. And I want to share you some insights in what we, what you get when you give our first lectures in psychology. So what is cognitive psychology? Cognitive psychology is a core discipline in psychology. It means wherever you go, you will teach, it will be taught. And it's really about the basic components of our mind. We think about memory, about attention, learning, perception, and so forth. These are all basic elements of our mind that determine how we can behave intelligently in the world. Now, I want to show you some insights in what we have when we teach on, in this case, perception. Now, you probably all know when you were a kid that, well, we basically have five senses, at least that's the rumor. What are those senses? Well, you know them. You see, you have the eyes for seeing, the ears for hearing, nose for smelling, and so forth. So that's the basic thing that people know. What people often don't know is that actually we have much more senses than those five. Some people may say, you know, I have a sixth sense, but really we have more than six also. So, for instance, for instance, think about balance, feeling vibration, we have senses for temperature, pain, and also canesthesia. That's about how you move your arms in the tension on the muscles and so forth. These all are part of our perceptual system. And they are, and if we count, well, we may have about 12 to 15 sense different senses. Okay, that's lesson one from psychology. Lesson two from psychology is comes from neuroscience. We all know that each of those senses, they have a dedicated brain area to which they project. So we have visual information for the visual cortex, the auditory cortex is for auditory perception, and so forth. Now, these cortical areas in the brain are indispensable for seeing, hearing, and so forth. Imagine somebody has a brain tumor in visual cortex, they may suffer from cortical blindness. So those people, their eyes are fine, but yet they don't see well. And the same for hearing, dumbness, and so forth. So, so far, so good. However, there is more than that. First of all, I should say, we know an awful lot about how this information in these primary cortical areas is processed. But there is a bit more, it is more complex than that. Rather, the some perception is much more than the sum of the activities in these cortical areas. Now, what do I mean with that? Take, for instance, a simple example, which the Dutch are very happy with, and that is with French fries. Now, simple question. When do French fries actually taste well? Well, taste, you may say, that has to do with tongue and mouth. And so, yes, indeed, they should be a bit salty, and they should be fatty, and they should also preferably a bit taste like potatoes. But there's more than that. They should also smell like potatoes. So smell, yes, it's important as well. It kicks in also. Are we there? No, they should also look like French fries. So you don't want them to be blue or green, but rather they should be golden brown. Are we there yet? No, they should also be crispy. Now, and crispy is a really difficult one, because it has to do with muscle tension. And at the right tension, it should crack, and the cracking is about hearing. It's really important that they crack on exactly the right time. Okay, so we already have motor cortex, auditory cortex, visual cortex, somatosensory cortex, taste cortex. Are we there yet? No, they should also be hot, of course, and that's temperature. It's, again, different senses. And is that fine? I'm sorry. We also need pain. And pain because they should be sizzling hot and sizzling hot. How is that coded in the brain? It's pain. So again, different senses kicking just for this single French fry. Are we there yet? No, the Dutch. It's really about the mayonnaise. French fries are only an excuse to have mayonnaise and mayonnaise again. Well, that should be creamy, white, cold, and so forth. So we get a really complex innovation here of different senses to get good fry.  Okay, this cooperation between the senses, you may think you may add up, but it's actually always the case. So here I have another example taken from visual stability. Now, imagine you look at the right side of this video and what you see there is a bee who is sitting still. Now, you also see this little circle there. What is that? That's what the eyes are actually looking at. So we can look with eye trackers where the subject is looking. And here we have a free recording of a subject just looking at this image. Now what's on the left side of this image? Well, this is what actually the information that is sent to the visual brain from the eyes. So on the left side, what you see there is a small circle where the subject is looking. And that's the information sent to the brain. And the brain now has to figure out from this information on the left what's actually in the image on the right. And so what you see there, eyes are never still. They always, in fact, if your eyes would be stable completely still, you would be blinded to seconds because the receptors adapt very quickly. So this very jiggling moving is very important to see. Otherwise, you would be blind. But imagine what the visual cortex has to do to figure out what's this wibbling image to make a stable image. The basic option of this is the visual cortex needs to know where the eyes are looking. So it needs to, and it gets this information from motor areas. So motor areas, they don't just talk to the eyes, but also to the visual cortex to tell where they're looking at. Otherwise, we can come up with this table image. So that's another example of where senses cooperate. Here, another example from how we stabilize our head. We have a chicken here, and actually you should hear nice music from Diana Ross upside down. But in the meantime, figure out how it just imagined how it might sound. But here we have a chicken that is moved. And the interesting part of this, you see lots of chickens here. They're all moved, but look how they stabilize their head.  How does she know that? Well, because there is sensory information about where I'm moving. And that's sent towards the head and the motor system, too. And actually an interesting motor company, they use that information to stabilize their car. So this was actually an ad from Mercedes-Benz. So when does this develop this integration between the senses? Well, here's an example of Kuhl and Meltzer that did that a long time ago. They had babies sitting in a rocking chair. And those babies, they could see two videos of a speaker. One speaker said, ah, ah, so they moved her mouse like ah. And the other speaker said, ee, ee, ee. Now, the baby can look at both videos and just wondering what's going on. But at some point they hear ah, ah. And what does the baby do? He immediately looks at the face that's pronouncing ah. And if the baby hears ee, ee, he starts looking at the face that says ee. So we have here the baby knows already how sounds should be articulated. He knows about ah and ee. Now, what's interesting about this phenomenon is that the baby is only four months old. He hasn't spoken yet. And so the baby has no knowledge in principle of what ah and ee sounds does. Yet he knows where to look at how they should be articulated. So long before babies can talk, they already know about how we move our mouth and what sound it should produce. Again, another demonstration that eyes and ears are strongly connected. So all these examples demonstrate that information from different senses gets integrated with each other. But also realize that all senses continuously transmit information to the brain.  So how does the brain then actually know which information belongs together and which not? How do you know that the sounds that you hear are related to the movements that you see here, but not, let's say, to the screen, to the other part of the screen that you're looking at? Now that's a difficult question. We've solved this problem. It's known as scene analysis. What is scene analysis? It's your cameras nowadays are smart. They not just take a picture, but they actually recognize that this is a microphone, that that's a video camera, and that this is your face. How do they do that in the visual system? Because they're also, how do you know what belongs together and what not? And for the visual system, we've discovered various kind of laws. And here I show you one more. This is look at this picture and just try to figure out what it is. Now this may be difficult and you may have to look at it for a while and still don't know what it is. But now watch it.  And from now on, you will always see it immediately because now you see, now you discover, these are letters covered by circles A, B, C, D. But now look at the black parts. The black parts on the left, the letters, and the black parts on the right are identical. Why is it that you see it on the right side, but not on the left side? Now the reason why it is is because there is a law in scene analysis which says that boundaries belong to objects. Now what does it entail? For instance, take this little part here. That part in the left side was difficult. You thought, your visual system thought it belongs to the letters. But once we covered it with circles, there is this rule which is, no, no, no, that critical part there is actually not from the letter. Ignore that because it's from the circle. And so that's noise. And this is, whereas this part, the other part on the left here, that is now critical for the level C. So this rules now tells us what the characteristics of a circle is and which to ignore. It separates signal from noise. That is what scene analysis does. Okay, but how does the brain know for the multisensory domain? So here we also have many senses bring sending information to the brain. And how does the brain know which information belongs together? Yes or no. So here we have an example of clapping hands. Imagine I do this, right? So I have my motor system which says I'm moving my hands. My auditory system says I hear a clap. My visual system sees something and then it suddenly stops. But I also see lands here, a microphone here and so forth. How do we know that this belongs together and the other part should be ignored? Well, what do hearing, seeing and feeling have in common then? Well, for one, and that's for sure, they arrive at approximately the same time in the brain. And so there is differences in neural processing time and in transmission time of vision and vision. But they arrive at about the same time in the brain. And that is for the brain a very good cue to tell this is no coincidence. We should take that together, take it all together. But they may also come from the same location because we can hear where the sound comes from. You know where your hands are and the visual system knows about the location. So maybe it's also location that is a cue which tells you this all comes from the same location, treat them together. Or you may also have learned in due course of development how clapping hands sound. So they sound like flesh on flesh and not something like this. And you may learn by association from memory that they should belong together. Yes or no. All these properties may play a role, but we in our university are looking at many other different aspects of scene analysis in the multi sensory domain. That's what I had to say, my friends hope to see you soon at Tilburg University. Ok.