Moonwalking with Einstein

Question 1

Neuroplasticity

Answer 1

the brain’s ability to adapt to new input and ‘reorganize itself’ (example of taxi drivers in New York)

Question 2

Working memory

Answer 2

information is stored in a temporary limbo between being stored in long-term memory and being forgotten

Question 3

Phological loop

Answer 3

your internal voice

Question 4

Neocortex

Answer 4

part of the brain where information is stored (the hippocampus, however, is in charge of insuring that the information is actually stored there

Question 5

The brain accounts for:

Answer 5

2% of our weight,

yet it uses 20% of our oxygen,

and 25% of our glucose is burned there

Question 6

The brain best remembers…

Answer 6

things that are repeated, rhythmic, rhym, structure, and are easy to visualize

Question 7

Scripto continua

Answer 7

in the past text was written down to be read out loud, therefore punctuation marks and spaces were deemed irrelevant

ASYOUCANSEEITISNTEASYTOREADTHIS

Question 8

Torah

Answer 8

Hebrew bible

Question 9

Savant

Answer 9

someone born with a mental disability who has super-human brain functions (usually occurs to the people who experienced damaged to the left frontotemporal lobe)

Question 10

Dendrites

Answer 10

branches of a neuron