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Brain Book: Unit3
UNIT 3 - BRAIN GROWTH RESEARCH
Brain Growth Research!
Babies Brains:
Newborn babies have plenty of neurons, but the cells have very few connections between them. Because they are learning so much in their first few years, babies develop many new connections between their brain cells. By the time you become an adult you will have a trillion or more of these connections!
Newborn babies have plenty of neurons, but the cells have very few connections between them. Because they are learning so much in their first few years, babies develop many new connections between their brain cells. By the time you become an adult you will have a trillion or more of these connections!
Clever Cabbies:
London cabbies have to learn the locations of many different places, because their streets don't have numbers. Researchers measured the hippocampus--the area of the brain that remembers information about places--in London cabdrivers and compared them to other people's. The cabbies' were bigger, and the longer they were on the job, the bigger this area of the brain became! This shows that learning and practicing this skill made that area of their brain grow.of these connections!
London cabbies have to learn the locations of many different places, because their streets don't have numbers. Researchers measured the hippocampus--the area of the brain that remembers information about places--in London cabdrivers and compared them to other people's. The cabbies' were bigger, and the longer they were on the job, the bigger this area of the brain became! This shows that learning and practicing this skill made that area of their brain grow.of these connections!
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