Actually, 90 percent of your brain is not just languishing, it turns out. featurepics.com
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Cypress
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This is interesting but have never heard a teacher say that anyone was only using ten percent of their brain. It said in the article that they have taken scans and there was no part of the brain that is being unused. Well isn't that obvious? Of course there is no part of the brain that is just there. It was kind of gross thinking about how they experimented and took out parts of the rats brains. They found that often these rats could find their way through mazes that they were trained to navigate. Why would this myth even originate if they are testing rats and thinking that if they don't have to use all of their brain to do a certain task, then they think humans are wasting brain? That guy makes a good point about if we were only using ten percent of our brain, why would they have gotten bigger? If we only used ten percent of our brain we would be almost dead.
This was really cool. I have heard someone say to another that they are barely using their brain. Thankfully, no one has ever said that to me. :) Like Cypress said, it was kind of gross that they took out parts of the rats' brains. Its also pretty cruel. I also agree, it wouldn't make sense to have our brains get bigger after time if we were only using 10% of our brains.
This is so interesting! I have heard many times that people only use 10% of their brains, but have also heard that that is not true. Now I have one more that says the latter, but I still don't know for sure. Maybe I should see if I can find more studies on this to see if they support this idea. Also, if they could just do a brain scan to see how much of your brain you are using, why couldn't they do that then and stop this myth at the start? This was a good article and a good thing to think about.
I feel bad for the rodents who had parts of their brains excised. Did the parts of the brain removed have to do with whether they got through the maze successfully or not? If this myth was proved true, what would we do about it? Would we somehow, right when we are born, have an operation to have the parts of our brains we "don't use" be removed? Why wasn't this myth busted earlier? Like Chudler, I was also wondering why our brains would have gotten bigger through evolution if so much of it were going unused? This was a very interesting article. Thank you Emory! =]
I knew that the fact that we only use 10% of our brain wasn't true! I totally agree with this article. I didn't realize that we would be nearly dead if we only used that much of our brain, though. I never really knew why people say we only use a little percent of our brain.
Our head growing through evolution isn't proof that we use all of our brain since many animals have a large head and brain but are stupider than animals that have a small head and brain. Einstein had a small brain but he was still smart. To summarize, brain size has nothing to do with intelligence.
It makes sense that we use all of our brain, but this was still an interesting article. In cognitive psychology class, I learned that our capacity for long term memories is unlimited, and in the article it said that most of your brain goes towards running our systems, not with thinking. But if there is someone who thinks a lot, knows a lot, and remembers a lot, does it all cram into that part of your brain that does the thinking, or does that part of your brain grow? And if it does grow, isn't it possible for that part of your brain to overtake some of the part of your brain that runs our systems? It it does, that could cause many problems. And are there even specific parts of your brain that think or run systems, or are they dispersed around your brain?
Hmm... I wonder what that scientist who cut out parts of rat's brains and tested them in mazes was thinking. First of all, that is cruel to rats, and second, that experiment is inconclusive. I am sure they could complete on pre-mastered task without parts of the brain, but what about general functioning and learning new things? They most likely require a full brain to do all that. I am glad this was set right. Also, I have never heard someone tell me directly (ex. a teacher I have had) that only ten percent of the brain is used, but i have heard that before.
I think that the the myth that you only use 10% of your brain is busted/not busted. I think that the whole thing is a miscommunication. Look at this video and skip to 1:40 : http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-brain-drain-aftershow.html In the video they say that you use 10% of your brain. But they also say that it's not only one part that functioning at a time - it is many. This article says that you use more than 10% of your brain. The myth "you only use 10% of your brain" can be interpreted into 2 ways. Eric Chudler said that "there’s no part of the brain just sitting there unused." Grant There is two ways this myth can be interpreted. (1) The percentage of the all the parts in the brain that are being used. (2) 1 part of the brain uses 10% at a time. This might sound a little confusing.
I heard a rumor that the reason that some people can do superhuman feats and whatnot because they use more than 10 percent of the brain. I guess this busted that.
Why would anyone think that we only use ten percent of our brains? I think that this is kind of a strange article because I have never heard someone say that we only use 10%.
That is so cool. If we only use 10 % percent of our brains, imagine how smart humans would be if we used 100% of our brain. I have heard about this many times, but I never actually believed it.
I thought that it was really interesting how our brains have gotten bigger over the years. I have never heard that expression, but I have heard things similar to it. I think that when they tested the rats in the maze it was first of all, animal abuse! It is completely unethical and inhumane to cut out a part of a rat's brain just to test a silly expression. This is contributing to the hundreds of millions of rats that are suffering and dying because of our petty needs. Second, I know that a lot of scientists test on rats because they don't have any important purpose, but I don't see how we can get information about our brains by dissecting theirs.
I think that this article is really interesting. I didn't even think or know that we only used 10% of our brain. It makes sense that a person uses all of their brain, because, when you think of it, we are doing so much at one time. Even when you type, you are using your brain to move your fingers and to move them to hit the right keys, to figure out what you are going to write, and to make sure that you are spelling your words right.
The brain is a very complex organ. It’s interesting what Eric Chudler says: “‘It’s a dynamic maze of wiring where new connections can be created in response to new stimuli, or lost with disuse.’” This means we can change our brains by doing different activities and making more/less connections. A musician who practices for hours a day will have a different brain from someone who doesn’t play an instrument. A basketball player’s brain is different from someone who doesn’t play sports. Also, children can learn certain things faster than adults, like a new language or an instrument.
I always believed that only 10% of our brains were being used, but I never heard about the psychic powers associated with that. It would be cool to bend spoons and levitate, however.
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This is interesting but have never heard a teacher say that anyone was only using ten percent of their brain. It said in the article that they have taken scans and there was no part of the brain that is being unused. Well isn't that obvious? Of course there is no part of the brain that is just there. It was kind of gross thinking about how they experimented and took out parts of the rats brains. They found that often these rats could find their way through mazes that they were trained to navigate. Why would this myth even originate if they are testing rats and thinking that if they don't have to use all of their brain to do a certain task, then they think humans are wasting brain? That guy makes a good point about if we were only using ten percent of our brain, why would they have gotten bigger? If we only used ten percent of our brain we would be almost dead.
This was really cool. I have heard someone say to another that they are barely using their brain. Thankfully, no one has ever said that to me. :) Like Cypress said, it was kind of gross that they took out parts of the rats' brains. Its also pretty cruel. I also agree, it wouldn't make sense to have our brains get bigger after time if we were only using 10% of our brains.
This was very interesting.
This was very interesting.
This is so interesting! I have heard many times that people only use 10% of their brains, but have also heard that that is not true. Now I have one more that says the latter, but I still don't know for sure. Maybe I should see if I can find more studies on this to see if they support this idea. Also, if they could just do a brain scan to see how much of your brain you are using, why couldn't they do that then and stop this myth at the start? This was a good article and a good thing to think about.
I feel bad for the rodents who had parts of their brains excised. Did the parts of the brain removed have to do with whether they got through the maze successfully or not? If this myth was proved true, what would we do about it? Would we somehow, right when we are born, have an operation to have the parts of our brains we "don't use" be removed? Why wasn't this myth busted earlier? Like Chudler, I was also wondering why our brains would have gotten bigger through evolution if so much of it were going unused? This was a very interesting article. Thank you Emory! =]
I knew that the fact that we only use 10% of our brain wasn't true! I totally agree with this article. I didn't realize that we would be nearly dead if we only used that much of our brain, though. I never really knew why people say we only use a little percent of our brain.
Our head growing through evolution isn't proof that we use all of our brain since many animals have a large head and brain but are stupider than animals that have a small head and brain. Einstein had a small brain but he was still smart. To summarize, brain size has nothing to do with intelligence.
It makes sense that we use all of our brain, but this was still an interesting article. In cognitive psychology class, I learned that our capacity for long term memories is unlimited, and in the article it said that most of your brain goes towards running our systems, not with thinking. But if there is someone who thinks a lot, knows a lot, and remembers a lot, does it all cram into that part of your brain that does the thinking, or does that part of your brain grow? And if it does grow, isn't it possible for that part of your brain to overtake some of the part of your brain that runs our systems? It it does, that could cause many problems. And are there even specific parts of your brain that think or run systems, or are they dispersed around your brain?
Hmm... I wonder what that scientist who cut out parts of rat's brains and tested them in mazes was thinking. First of all, that is cruel to rats, and second, that experiment is inconclusive. I am sure they could complete on pre-mastered task without parts of the brain, but what about general functioning and learning new things? They most likely require a full brain to do all that. I am glad this was set right. Also, I have never heard someone tell me directly (ex. a teacher I have had) that only ten percent of the brain is used, but i have heard that before.
I think that the the myth that you only use 10% of your brain is busted/not busted. I think that the whole thing is a miscommunication. Look at this video and skip to 1:40 :
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-brain-drain-aftershow.html
In the video they say that you use 10% of your brain. But they also say that it's not only one part that functioning at a time - it is many. This article says that you use more than 10% of your brain. The myth "you only use 10% of your brain" can be interpreted into 2 ways. Eric Chudler said that "there’s no part of the brain just sitting there unused." Grant There is two ways this myth can be interpreted. (1) The percentage of the all the parts in the brain that are being used. (2) 1 part of the brain uses 10% at a time.
This might sound a little confusing.
I heard a rumor that the reason that some people can do superhuman feats and whatnot because they use more than 10 percent of the brain. I guess this busted that.
Why would anyone think that we only use ten percent of our brains? I think that this is kind of a strange article because I have never heard someone say that we only use 10%.
That is so cool. If we only use 10 % percent of our brains, imagine how smart humans would be if we used 100% of our brain. I have heard about this many times, but I never actually believed it.
I thought that it was really interesting how our brains have gotten bigger over the years. I have never heard that expression, but I have heard things similar to it. I think that when they tested the rats in the maze it was first of all, animal abuse! It is completely unethical and inhumane to cut out a part of a rat's brain just to test a silly expression. This is contributing to the hundreds of millions of rats that are suffering and dying because of our petty needs. Second, I know that a lot of scientists test on rats because they don't have any important purpose, but I don't see how we can get information about our brains by dissecting theirs.
I think that this article is really interesting. I didn't even think or know that we only used 10% of our brain. It makes sense that a person uses all of their brain, because, when you think of it, we are doing so much at one time. Even when you type, you are using your brain to move your fingers and to move them to hit the right keys, to figure out what you are going to write, and to make sure that you are spelling your words right.
The brain is a very complex organ. It’s interesting what Eric Chudler says: “‘It’s a dynamic maze of wiring where new connections can be created in response to new stimuli, or lost with disuse.’” This means we can change our brains by doing different activities and making more/less connections. A musician who practices for hours a day will have a different brain from someone who doesn’t play an instrument. A basketball player’s brain is different from someone who doesn’t play sports. Also, children can learn certain things faster than adults, like a new language or an instrument.
I always believed that only 10% of our brains were being used, but I never heard about the psychic powers associated with that. It would be cool to bend spoons and levitate, however.
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