Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Brains

Today we're going to talk about Brains!
Yes People, our Human Brain!
Do you all know that we haven't fully studied our brains yet.
It's still a mystery us about brains until now.



Yay for coloured brains!


Do you know, we can actually unlock our hidden talent in our brain?
Yes Seriously, Scientists around the world are trying to find a way for this
and here are some research and article about hidden genius

Born Genius


"Hell Yeah i am born genius!"

At two years old, Marc Yu taught himself how to play Mary Had a Little Lamb on the piano. One year later, he was tackling Beethoven. Marc also has perfect pitch the ability to identify musical notes as easily as identifying colours a skill that only one in 10,000 people can claim. How did Marc develop his amazing music ability?

His mother exposed him to music at a very early age, did that shape his penchant for music or was he born brilliant? Born Genius investigates whether nature gifts some children with a genius gene while also examining the role nurture plays in shaping intelligence. Do children who are nurtured to learn at a very young age excel more easily than their peers? And, more importantly, what happens if a child misses out on crucial brain stimulation early in life?

This is the case for one little girl forced to spend her childhood isolated in a small room deprived of any interaction with people, even her parents. The result: at age 13, she had the mental age of an 18-month old infant. Missing out on critical stages of development throughout her youth, can she possibly catch up to her peers?

Make me a genius


" You're screwed, you can't beat me in chess "

Can you turn an ordinary child into a prodigy? For Susan Polger, this hypothetical becomes reality as she is transformed into the worlds first female chess grand master. Susan was not born with her brilliant brain; it was created by a unique educational experience that dominated her childhood.

With no history of brilliant chess players in her family, Susan spent her childhood diligently studying more than 100,000 chess patterns. Once considered a mans game, Susan is winning chess matches against men more than three times her age at 10 years old.

As an adult, she can now play as many as five games simultaneously, competing against opponents over the phone and without being able to view the board. She seems to recognize an opponents chess pattern almost as fast as she can recognize an old friend. How are people like Susan able to train their brains to remember staggering amounts of data?


Accidental Genius

George Widener

Tommy McHugh

George Widener patiently writes down the dates for every Monday in the next 500 years - all 26,000 of them. An autistic savant, George possesses an island of genius that enables him to do things an ordinary person would find impossible. To help unlock this enigma, George volunteers to undergo a brain scan something most savants are too disabled to endure.

Incredibly, while Georges brain is structurally normal, it is mysteriously ablaze with activity in unexpected areas when he calculates dates. Why is Georges brain activity so different from the ordinary? While George was born with his genius,

Tommy McHugh is mysteriously awakened in middle life to a talent he never knew he had. After suffering a near fatal brain aneurysm, Tommy finds himself barely able to contain the emotions and words running around in his head. He begins writing poetry and painting manically, unable to stop himself. His artistic mania now overtakes his surroundings, with the walls in his home painted over and over again with his designs. Studying people like George and Tommy, some scientists hope to unearth how to turn on the hidden genius potential in each of us.



"I paint shits like the Picasso!"


Some Interesting Facts

  • Only 1 in 10,000 people has perfect pitch, the ability to identify a musical note without reference to other notes.
  • A skilled pianist can play up to 30 notes per second.
  • Comprising just 10% of the brain's volume, the cerebellum, which controls the body's movements, actually contains more neurons than the rest of the brain and the central nervous system put together.
  • A three year old has almost twice as many active connections between brain cells as an adult.
  • The number of possible chess games is greater than the number of atoms in the visible universe.
  • Our "working memory," the cognitive ability to store new information for a relatively short period of time, is limited to about 7 items.
  • Chess champions have 100,000 chess patterns committed to memory.
  • About 1 in 50 people have some degree of prosopagnosia, or"face blindness," which is an impairment in the recognition of faces.
  • Worldwide there are about 100 known prodigious savants, individuals who have a mental disability while exhibiting extraordinary skills or talents.
  • Prodigious savant Kim Peeke can read a 500-page book in one hour.

So what are we waiting for everyone,
let's bang our head and we will see what will happen!

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