Sublime

Your brain adjusts itself according to what you spend your time on, as long as those tasks have alignment with rewards or goals.

infotropism: the brain maximizes its resources to interpret whatever data flows in. And recall the illusion with the horizontal

It Starts with an Idea: Left Prefrontal Cortex and Visual Cortex Like Caroline’s

Squire’s experiments with Eugene revolutionized the scientific community’s understanding of how the brain works by proving, once and for all, that it’s possible to learn and make unconscious choices without remembering anything about the lesson or decision making.

Those thirty billions cells are you. They contain almost all your memories, knowledge, skills, and accumulated life experience.

Paul Reber, professor of psychology at Northwestern University, estimates that if the brain were a digital video recorder (DVR) it would have enough memory to hold three million hours of TV shows.

One of the leading researchers in this area is Donna Rose Addis, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory and Aging and a senior scientist at the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto. Her work has redefined the function of episodic memory as being ‘primarily future-focused’, and she recently discovered that some parts of the

the brain is a constant work in progress.

Tossing facts at an unengaged student is like throwing pebbles to dent a stone wall. It’s like trying to get Fred Williams to absorb tennis.