Notes and Quotes from Richard Restak – Mozart’s Brain and the Fighter Pilot: Unleashing Your Brain’s Potential
– Traditionally, neuroscientists believed that once the human brain achieved adult proportions, it remained stable over the next several decades and then underwent an inevitable decline in structure and function. They also believed that lost brain cells could never be replaced. Neither of these formerly hallowed tenets is still thought to be true.
– It is estimated that in the monkey, thirty thousand synapses are lost per second in the cortex during the period of sexual maturation.
– Frontal and prefrontal lobes are principally responsible for control functions: sequencing, drive, executive, control, future memory.
– For developing new manual skills: practice up to 40 minutes followed by several hours of non-manual activity for memory consolidation.
– “He’s just parroting a lot of information he doesn’t really understand” is a common put-down when people are enviously criticizing someone with a powerful memory.
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