Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.

- Michael Merzenich

The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical cha…

- Michael Merzenich

The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of "practice" events at, that the average human a thousand years…

- Michael Merzenich

Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, i…

- Michael Merzenich

If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch…

- Michael Merzenich

To learn is to change how you think.

- Michael Merzenich

Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.

- Michael Merzenich

My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement.

- Michael Merzenich