Donal Henahan Quotes

What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.

My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.

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

I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

I've always used music for my acting, and I do have a kind of a very personal play list that I create.

Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.

Neuroscience is now a very important research area in biology. We are now understanding a lot more about brains in babies, as well as children and adults.

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

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.

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.

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.

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

I truly believe that listening to music can transform you into a better person.

The brain is constantly adapting.

The brain is plastic its whole life span.

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

The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read deeply changed the very structure of that circuit's connections, which rewired the brain, which transformed the nature of human thought.

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

Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception, cognition, and, over time, our emotions.

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

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.

I've always been kind of surrounded by music my whole life, so my earliest memories of it were just hearing it in the house.

One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind of task that comes its way.