New Insights on the Brain (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, July 21, 2011, 14:05 (4874 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/14/new-neurons-help-to-remember-fear/
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> > Fascinating study, which supports the observation that very young children, who are read to by their mothers have a higher IQ.
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> > Here is a study on fetal and newborn retinal activity and the brain:
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> > http://the-scientist.com/2011/07/01/foresight/
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> > Schatz is a most admirable woman.
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> While I agree that the study is fascinating, and that children who are read to have higher IQ's, I am not certain how the first article supports, or even relates, to that observation as it is focused on highly charged emotional events creating new neurons.-You are right. But what the overall impression suggests is the true plasticity of the brain early in life, and the unlikelihood that artificial intelligence science will ever equal the input and output of the human brain. Can a computer change its synapses?