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Mind Sculpture
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Mind Sculpture

Unlocking Your Brain's Untapped Potential

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This first-rate study of the workings of the brain is required reading for anyone interested in how advertisers influence consumers, how mental exercise can improve both mental and physical performance or how parents can stimulate mental activity in their young children. That probably doesn’t leave out many curious readers. Starting with a basic explanation of how the brain initially forms, Ian H. Robertson logically proceeds into his explanation of mind sculpting, which is nothing less than the process through which the mind is continuously evolving. His treatment of the staggeringly complex topic is surprisingly accessible, enabling you to make the intuitive leaps from biological detail to the practical manifestations of these phenomena without handholding. In short, getAbstract strongly recommends that you read this book.

Summary

The Trembling Web

Your brain is woven electricity. Every time you hear a dog bark, listen to a passing airplane or strain to hear a meadowlark sing you send a surge of electricity through millions of brain cells. These electrical surges go to the part of your brain that receives and processes the stimulus. In the example of sound, it is at the side of your head, above your eye.

When the brain receives stimulus, two important things happen. First, your brain sends additional blood to the areas receiving the stimulus. This blood acts as the fuel for the electrical response initiated by the brain. Second, the brain is permanently changed. The stimulus electrically transforms the web of cells that receives and processes the stimulus.

This latter effect is critical for the concept of mind sculpture. What you define as "you" is an ever-changing web of connected brain cells. Every action, from reading this essay to listening to your parents, to sitting in a school class, has shaped the trembling web of cells that is your brain. This "mind sculpture" has changed you from being illiterate to what you are today.

The trembling web is composed of the 100 billion brain...

About the Author

Ian H. Robertson, one of the world’s leading researchers in brain rehabilitation, has published many scholarly books and scientific papers on the subject. A former scientist at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, he teaches psychology at Trinity College, Dublin, and at University College, London.


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