Daphne Bavelier Quotes

Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.

Our brains have the ability to reorganize themselves by forming new neural connections throughout our lives. This ability is called neuroplasticity.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape.

I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself to learn something new.

The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.

When you engage your brain, it just keeps getting fatter and richer and wonderful.

Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.

The brain is constantly adapting.

People's brains work differently. The brain is like a muscle and you have to train it, keep it active, keep active in races. I notice if I haven't raced for a while. It's hard to see things clearly so you have to relearn that.

Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

We are not born with effective vision. The human infant has to learn how to see. The eyes gather information, they transmit it to the brain, but the brain doesn't know how to process it yet. We learn how to see in a way that's very similar to the way we learn how to speak. It takes a couple of years.

Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.

I have a little Nintendo DS, and I play these brain games that are supposed to stimulate your mind.

Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.

Replacing human vision is more than just a tool: we need to understand how that affects the brain.

We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.

Studies of social games, puzzle games, and brain-training games have shown they have little effect on the brain despite often being marketed as improving memory and reaction speeds.

The brain is plastic its whole life span.

The brain is muscle. If you don't exercise it, it will get slow.

There are no genes or areas in the brain devoted uniquely to reading. Rather, our ability to read represents our brain's protean capacity to learn something outside our repertoire by creating new circuits that connect existing circuits in a different way.

Normally, improving contrast sensitivity means using glasses or surgery to correct the eye. But we've found that action video games train the brain to process visual information more efficiently and improve vision.

By removing the obstacles that have built up over time, you can grow your brain from baseline to super brain.

The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.