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Flashcards by Andrea Pan, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Andrea Pan
about 2 years ago
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| The brain is the organ in the body that requires the most energy. It is also limited in size due to the skull, so it makes sense to use its resources as efficiently as possible. | |
| Deactivated neural connections can be restored and developed further. Only very few connections cannot be restored. In other words, we have plenty of opportunities to learn something new even as we age. | |
| The left and right hemispheres of the brain work together. Although we all obviously have different personalities and talents, there's no reason to believe these differences can be explained by the dominance of one half of the brain over the other half. | |
| Brain development continues well into adolescence and adulthood, especially the development of the pre-frontal lobes, which are critical for executive reasoning and decision-making. | |
| To learn, you have to be awake, because conscious effort is required. We need sleep because of the considerable role it plays in the development and functioning of the brain. In particular, it allows us to consolidate the things we learn while we are awake. | |
| The brain cannot simultaneously attend to two or more attention-rich stimuli: in short, multitasking does not work. | |
| We do have a preferred learning style (one that feels more comfortable) but using another one has no impact on our performance. We don’t have different learning styles, we just have different learning preferences. | |
| Learning arises from changes in the connections between brain cells. | |
| No research has ever demonstrated that merely listening to Mozart’s music can have a lasting impact on general intelligence or IQ. When peer-reviewed studies have reported an effect, it has been confined to the domain of spatial reasoning skills, and the cognitive enhancement was very short-lived. |
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