There are quite a few videos out there of little kids doing things at an extremely advanced level, given their age. Like this one, where a girl who’s not yet two years shows she knows the world map better than most adults, from Zimbabwe to Ecuador. (It’s pretty amazing.)
Tags: brain function, Brain plasticity, child geniuses, children, children's brains, intelligence, plasticity, video
Posted October 19, 2010 by Marghi Merzenich under Brain plasticity, Odds and Ends
Perhaps you’ve heard that we humans are special in the animal world because our brains are so very, very big for our size. Not true, as it turns out. Sure, they’re big compared to a bird brain or a dog brain, but in the primate world our brain size is pretty unremarkable–at least according to this [...]
Tags: brain function, craniometry, intelligence, IQ tests, neurology, science claims, scientific studies, Steven Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
Posted August 4, 2010 by Marghi Merzenich under Evolution of the Brain, Neuroscience, Odds and Ends
Ask a group of people what the difference between animals and humans are, and they will probably come up with as many answers as there are individuals in the group. But my guess is that many of them will come up with some variation of this: that it’s our amazing brains–our ability to learn, to [...]
Tags: animal brains, emotion, intelligence, Robert Sapolsky, scientific studies, TED, theory of mind
Posted March 23, 2010 by Marghi Merzenich under Neuroscience, Odds and Ends, Research studies
Repair, Reactivate and Rejuvenate are all words I just came across while reading a magazine aimed at the more ‘sophisticated and achievement-oriented’ women of America. Unfortunately these words were not in an article for brain fitness - although they could have been as that is what brain fitness exercises have been proven to achieve. Instead the words were [...]
Tags: brain fitness, brain training, Confidence, intelligence, Self-esteem
Posted November 10, 2009 by Laura Moon under Benefits of Brain Fitness
I was reading an article the other day about a new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience that measured brain speed and intelligence, and found a correlation between the two. The more intelligent people in the study had faster brains. You can read more about this study on NPR. According to the authors, brain [...]
Tags: auditory processing, brain speed, intelligence, processing speed, visual processing
Posted October 29, 2009 by Marghi Merzenich under Brain plasticity, DriveSharp, InSight, Neuroscience, Processing speed, Research studies
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