Dispelling "Neuromyths"

Hello again! Today I'll talk about a book called "brain and learning", the chapter called dispelling "Neuromyths", and specialy of the neuromyth that talks about humans just use the ten percent of his brain. This myth is very known for everybody and started when, the text presumed, Albert Einstein said that he just used ten percent of his brain during an interview.

Well, in the text says that, in that time, early investigations supported this idea, but now, recently experiments have demonstrated that even if one functional area of the brain is being preferently used, at the same time others functional areas have activity, as the secondary areas and thats that have relation with posture and movements. Other experiments demosntrated that any area of the brain is inactive at any time, even sleeping, and finally, the fact that any harm in the brain have impact in one or various functions, even in those wounds that aparently doesn't have repercussions. In fact, it actually had repercussions, but the brain adapted himself to attenuate the efects of the wound, and thats because of something called neuroplasticity.

Personally, I think that this article clarifies this myth in a very good way, because if someone comes to ask " it is true that about we use just ten percent of our brains?", this article gave the ways to answer that question in simple words that someone that does not know anything from neuroscieces would understand and accept this.

Well that's all for now, I hope you have enjoyed reading about this interesting subject. Bye for now!