Faces are constantly moving, and your brain relies on many different factors at once—body posture, voice, the overall situation, your lifetime of experience—to figure out which movements are meaningful and what they mean.14
Kristina Mustafinahas quoted2 years ago
you must show that no other explanations can account for your results.
Jackhas quoted9 months ago
ll of it nonstop for seventy-two years
I hope I live longer than this
Jackhas quoted9 months ago
primary somatosensory cortex.
Allows us to sense body’s movements and sense of touch
Jackhas quoted9 months ago
The biological building blocks are the same; what differs is the timing.
Jackhas quoted9 months ago
Hub damage is associated with depression, schizophrenia, dyslexia, chronic pain, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and other disorders.
Jackhas quoted9 months ago
Similarly, when babies are born with dense cataracts, meaning the brain receives no visual input, neurons in the visual cortex become repurposed for other senses.
That’s so cool how neurons can just change their inputs
Jackhas quoted9 months ago
Degeneracy in the brain means that your actions and experiences can be created in multiple ways.
Jackhas quoted9 months ago
complexity. It is a brain’s ability to configure itself into an enormous number of distinct neural patterns.
Jackhas quoted9 months ago
complexity is a critical ingredient for these capabilities, and the human brain has it in abundance.