The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the structure and future functioning of the nervous system. This leaves us with a clear physiological fact…moment by moment we choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work. We choose who we will be in the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are left embossed in physical form in our material selves.
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
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
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 patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical cha…
Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections. - Michael Merzenich
Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.
My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement. - Michael Merzenich
My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement.
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
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…
Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it. - Michael Merzenich
Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.
To learn is to change how you think. - Michael Merzenich
To learn is to change how you think.
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
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…
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