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Hello, on this occasion I will discuss some myths about the brain and my opinion about this.
For a long time, science believed that the maximum number of neurons was fixed at birth; unlike most other cells, neurons were not thought to regenerate and each individual.
For the past twenty years, findings have changed this view by revealing hitherto unsuspected phenomena: new neurons appear at any point in a person’s life (neurogenesis) and, in some cases at least, the number of neurons does not fluctuate throughout the lifetime. In relation for this, when i was studing in the school my teachers told me that the neurogenesis was impossible.
The synaptogenesis is intense in the very early years of life of a human being. If learning were to be determined by the creation of new synapses – an idea with some intuitive appeal – it is a short step to deduce that it is in the early years of a child when he is most capable of learning. Another version, more current in Europe, is the view that very young children must be constantly stimulated in their first two to three years in order to strengthen their learning capacities for subsequent life.
Other myth about brain is that “There are critical periods when certain matters must be taught and learnt”. It is known that adults are less capable of learning certain things. Anyone who starts to learn a foreign language later in life, for example, will in all likelihood always have a “foreign accent”.
I think like Dr. Maldonado, but the computer gives us many activities can never be equal to the capacity of the brain.