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Somewhere over the brainbow
In 1964, neuropsychologist Roger Sperry drew an analogy between neurons and ideas: Ideas cause ideas and help evolve new ideas. They interact with each other and with other mental forces in the same brain, in neighboring brains, and thanks to global communication, in far distant, foreign brains.
The Marginalian • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
In sum, experience creates the repeated neural firing that can lead to gene expression, protein production, and changes in both the genetic regulation of neurons and the structural connections in the brain.
Daniel J. Siegel • Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
As a neuron learns, its very shape changes too. A mushroom-like structure called a “dendritic spine” forms at the place on the dendrite where the synapse lands. If necessary, a second synapse emerges to double the first. Other synapses that land on the same neuron are also strengthened.18 Thus, when learning is prolonged, the very anatomy of the br
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Two things emerge from all these studies. The adult brain is a highly specialized device that responds specifically to specific kinds of stimulation. Particular parts of the brain, even individual cells, are designed to respond to information from the outside world in particular ways, sending that information off to other parts of the brain. In tha
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