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How Much of the Brain Do We Really Use? - Health - MSN Healthy Living - 0 views

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  • humans regularly use all of the brain
  • Albert Einstein's brain was remarkable for its unremarkable size and shape.
  • If we had that much unused brain capacity, we should be able to withstand brain disease or damage pretty wel
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Humans Already Use Way, Way More Than 10% of Their Brains - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • . The brain is an organ. Its living neurons, and the cells that support them, are always doing something
  • “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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Fact or fiction: We only use 10 per cent of our brain - Fact Check - ABC News (Australi... - 0 views

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  • the work of brain researchers in the first half of the 20th century helped popularise the idea.
  • Even when asleep, most of the brain is active," he says.
  • "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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All You Need To Know About the 10 Percent Brain Myth, in 60 Seconds | Science Blogs | W... - 0 views

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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.”
  • a survey of school teachers in Britain and The Netherlands found that 48 per cent and 46 per cent, respectively, endorsed the myth
  • 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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BBC - Future - Do we only use 10% of our brains? - 0 views

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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%
  • 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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Neuroscience For Kids - 10% of the Brain Myth - 0 views

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  • misinterpretation of the work of Pierre Flourens in the 1800s
  • misquote of Albert Einstein
  • "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."
  • functional brain imaging studies show that all parts of the brain function.
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