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

The traditional classroom consists of a teacher droning on, possibly reading from bulleted slides. This is suboptimal for brain changes, because the students are not engaged, and without engagement there is little to no plasticity. The information doesn’t stick.

Reward is a powerful way to rewire the brain, but happily your brain doesn’t require cookies or cash for each modification. More generally, change is tied to anything that is relevant to your goals. If you’re in the far north and need to learn about ice fishing and different types of snow, that’s what your brain will come to encode. In contrast, if

This difference between the rover and the wolf lies in information versus information-with-a-purpose. Unlike Spirit, the leg-trapped wolf operates with ambitions: to escape danger and to reach safety. Its actions and intentions are undergirded by the threat of predators and the demands of its stomach. The wolf traffics in deference to goals. As a r

In contrast, baby brains modify across vast territories.

The loop of putting out actions and evaluating the feedback is the key to understanding not just motor babbling but also social babbling. Consider how you learned (and continue to learn) communication with other people. You constantly put social actions into the world, assess the feedback, and adjust. We rove the space of possibilities, trying out

Your brain assigns more ground to that frequency, because the presence of reward indicated that it must be important.

the younger the soldier was when he got injured, the better he was now; the older the soldier, the more permanent the damage.

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