Michael Merzenich quotes
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“The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the structure and future functioning of the nervous system. This leaves us with a clear physiological fact…moment by moment we choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work. We choose who we will be in the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are left embossed in physical form in our material selves.”
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“Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.”
-- Michael MerzenichSource : "The Fantastic Plastic Brain". The Kavli Foundation interview, www.kavlifoundation.org. July 2012.
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“The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of 'practice' events at, that the average human a thousand years ago had absolutely no exposure to. Our brains are massively remodeled by this exposure-but so, too, by reading, by television, by video games, by modern electronics, by contemporary music, by contemporary 'tools,' etc.”
-- Michael MerzenichSource : "Are we getting smarter or dumber?". Interview with Stefanie Olsen, www.cnet.com. September 21, 2005.
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“If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.”
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“Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.”
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“Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.”
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“My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement.”
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Source : "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.
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“I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.”
Source : A.S. King (2010). “Please Ignore Vera Dietz”, p.29, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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Source : Source: www.justjared.com
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“We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.”
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“Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.”
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“I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.”
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