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humans regularly use all of the brain
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Albert Einstein's brain was remarkable for its unremarkable size and shape.
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If we had that much unused brain capacity, we should be able to withstand brain disease or damage pretty wel
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. The brain is an organ. Its living neurons, and the cells that support them, are always doing something
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“the brain could be one hundred percent active during a task with only a small percentage of brain activity unique to the task.
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the work of brain researchers in the first half of the 20th century helped popularise the idea.
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Even when asleep, most of the brain is active," he says.
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"We use different parts of our brains in different ways when we do different things, but there are no parts of the brain sitting there unused,
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people can always learn new ideas and new skills, but not because we are tapping into some unused part of the brain - what's actually happening is that we are forming new or stronger connections between nerve cells.
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misquoted the brilliant American psychologist William James as saying that the average person specifically “develops only 10 percent of his latent mental ability.”
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a survey of school teachers in Britain and The Netherlands found that 48 per cent and 46 per cent, respectively, endorsed the myth
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65 percent of people believed in the myth.
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Modern brain scans show activity coursing through the entire organ, even when we’re resting
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It’s an appealing idea because it suggests the possibility that we could become so much more intelligent, successful or creative, if only you could harness that wasted 90%
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d functional magnetic resonance imaging, neuroscientists can place a person inside a scanner and see which parts of the brain are activated when they do or think about something.
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misinterpretation of the work of Pierre Flourens in the 1800s
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misquote of Albert Einstein
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"We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources"
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"We use 100% of our brains."
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functional brain imaging studies show that all parts of the brain function.
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