Clare Balding Quotes

We believe that people will use real-time fMRI feedback to hone cognitive strategies that will increase activation of brain regions.

Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.

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.

I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.

The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

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

The answer is pretty clear that your intelligence can actually be changed.

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise.

Your brain is so lovely and so willing to please. It wants to help so much.

I suspect that pleasure is mainly used to turn off parts of the brain so you can keep fresh the memories of things you're trying to learn. It protects the short-term memory buffers. That's one theory of pleasure.

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 one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

Children love this idea that their brain is like a muscle that gets stronger as they use it.

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