Tom Chatfield Quotes

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

Just think of the opportunities we can unlock by making education as addictive as a video game. This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain. When was the last time your child asked for help with a video game?

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

The connections in the brain fade away unless used. We know that early stimulation of children leads to higher cognitive scores.

When people play action games, they're changing the brain's pathway responsible for visual processing. These games push the human visual system to the limits, and the brain adapts to it.

Gamification is as important as social and mobile.*

The theory of isolation of certain tasks in certain hemispheres of the brain suggests I shouldn't even be able to speak, never mind write.

The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.

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.

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.

Video games are a huge, incredibly popular, world-transforming medium.

All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.

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.

Attention for children is so much about input, and the brain can only filter so much - I don't know how many millions of messages that come through the brain, and we can only filter so much through it.

While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.

If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.

We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?

Confident people tend to challenge themselves and compete, even when their efforts yield small victories. Small victories build new androgen receptors in the areas of the brain responsible for reward and motivation.

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

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

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.