Do you think your brain is smart?

When we praise a person for having a flexible mind

When memory is strong

It usually suggests certain areas of the person's brain

will be more outstanding than the average person

however

Have a smart brain

Is it completely innate?

Or maybe it's through acquired training

What about changing and upgrading the brain?

Neurologist Maguire

Also interested in this issue

She chose a group of London taxi drivers

of the brain to study

Hope it can be answered

The question of "is it possible for the brain to change?"

Taxi driver in London

is for the geographical space of London

A group of people with overwhelming memory

They can say it easily

The fastest way to go to any two locations

They can even put the name of each street that passes by

Or which one is a dead alley

Or a one-way street

When to turn left It's time to turn right

All in detail

They even connect every theater

They know where the front and back doors are

So Maguire was very curious

What are the factors

Let this group of taxi drivers

Have such a strong memory

So he scanned the drivers' brains

Discover in their brains

Areas related to spatial cognition

Significantly larger than the average person

In other words

What makes drivers have a strong spatial memory

It's because it's in their brains

The location where spatial information is processed

is larger than the average person

Determine the brains of taxi drivers

It's really different from the average person

Maguire's next step

It's to answer

The brains of London taxi drivers

In the end, it is born to have it

These spatial cognitive areas are relatively large

Or is it such a brain

Is it nurture?

To answer this question

Maguire's team

Start tracking down a group

Coming soon

Men in the London Taxi Driver Licence Exam

They have to undergo long-term training

Memorize the map of London over and over again

and constant outings

I'm familiar with the relationship between the streets

And after four years of training

Only half of them

I got a taxi driver's license

As expected

They were scanned and found

This group of people who were admitted to the license

in their brains

The area responsible for spatial cognition

The volume is more than not admitted

The crowd came big

And amazingly

Maguire looked back

Everybody's brain was scanned four years ago

only to find out

At that time, everybody's brain

The size of the area responsible for spatial cognition

In fact, the volume is about the same

Other words

London taxi driver

Amazing memory

It doesn't come from the difference in the structure of the brain by nature

opposite

Maguire's experiment illustrates

The brain is extremely resilient

And it can be changed

Besides

Maguire also discovered

Between those who have taken the license exam and those who have not

Affects whether the brain will change

A major difference

It is the amount of practice that candidates go out every week

Drivers who have passed the licensing exam

They ride their locomotives every week

Wander the streets of London

Try to remember

This is the space of the whole city

The time they spent

It is the other half of the people who did not pass the exam

of a full double

This observation illustrates changes in the brain

and consistent practice

There is a very strong correlation between the two

Although currently scientists

There is no way to rule out other influencing factors

Like some complex environmental factors

Or that genes may actually have an effect

But this experiment has clearly demonstrated

If we're going to cause changes in the brain

The process of learning is indispensable

If the brain can be changed

This means:

We may be able to master a skill that we wouldn't otherwise have

Or learn one

I thought I couldn't learn a difficult knowledge

Although current brain science research

There is no way to guarantee everyone

can change the brain to learn everything

Is that really too easy?

But we know for sure

Open the door to brain change

It must be a laborious learning process

Do you think your brain is smart?

Perhaps this is not the most important issue right now

Most importantly

Are you willing to keep struggling and trying?

Try to learn

Let your own brain

There's a possibility to get smarter