Brain Flexibility Quotes

Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.

Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt.

I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.

The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.

Most people (by the time they have become adults ) can't change their minds because their neural pathways have become set... the longer neural pathways have been running one way the harder it is to rewire them.

But I think if you do have a job that has quite a few elements to it, then it does mean you get to flex different muscles and different parts of your brain, which I do like.

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.

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

The brain, being analog, is able to grasp images so much better. The brain is just designed for comparing images and some patterns - patterns in space and patterns in time - which we do amazingly well. Computers can do it, too, but not in anything like the same kind of flexibility.