Saved by Mo Shafieeha
Neuroplasticity is a Pretty Useless Idea for Practice
My favourite thing about neuroscience is discovering again and again how plastic the brain is. Anything can be learned and unlearned, at any age. A new skill, a different behaviour, a way of thinking - once you start, the brain will adapt.
basilsubstack.comAgainst "Brain Damage"
oneusefulthing.org
Long practice teaches an artist to direct their gaze in an unusually focused way; it trains them to repurpose areas of their brain; and it changes the very structure of the brain’s neural networks. Ocean’s unusual patterns of thought – and his unusually developed brain – were normal in trained artists. Other neurological researchers have shown that
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