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"The brain is heavily influenced by genes. But from birth through young adulthood, the part of the human brain that most defines us (frontal cortex) is less a product of the genes with which you started life than of what life has thrown at you. Because it is the last to mature, by definition the frontal cortex is the brain region least constrained
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the likely physiological basis of our ancestors’ first reading of tokens was a tiny new circuitry connecting the angular gyrus region with a few nearby visual areas and if Dehaene is correct, a few parietal areas involved in numeracy and occipital-temporal areas involved in object recognition
Maryanne Wolf • Proust and the Squid
Beyond Evolutionary Psychology: How and Why Neuropsychological Modules Arise (Culture and Psychology)
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You can even see the difference in people’s brain waves.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
Von Economo neurons
Devon Price • Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.
Daniel Keyes • Flowers For Algernon: The must-read literary science fiction masterpiece (S.F. MASTERWORKS Book 6)
New research into the neurobiology of parenting and caregiving helps explain why alloparenting succeeds in different cultures. We are learning that a person doesn’t need to be pregnant for the brain to reconfigure into an infant-caregiving brain: hands-on parenting can rewire a male brain in a similar way to the effect of pregnancy and childbirth.
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