Posts Tagged ‘Neuroscience’

Implicit Memory

Posted: 26th October 2010 by Andrew Brown in Nonfiction, Rambling
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Prelude

First and foremost: please excuse the rambling nature of this post. If implicit (subconscious) memory is something that tickles your fancy, then I promise you’ll learn something if you sit through it. You’d probably learn something even if the subject matter didn’t tickle your fancy, but I’m just not sure I’d be willing to read through mad ramblings in something I’m not interested in. You know, unless it was written by me.

The Ten Percent Myth

Posted: 14th June 2010 by Andrew Brown in Nonfiction
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We only use ten percent of our brains.

You’ve heard it time and time again: the myth that humans only use ten percent of their brain, and that if only we could activate “the other 90%,” we’d be much smarter and more successful. Well, it’s wrong.

The brain has no appendix, no unused space. It’s packed tightly into your skull, and every ounce of it is used to its full potential. So where does this ten percent myth come from?