7+ Michael Merzenich Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Michael Merzenich quotes and sayings.

Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it. — Michael Merzenich

If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body. — Michael Merzenich

Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections. — Michael Merzenich

My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement. — Michael Merzenich

Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it. — Michael Merzenich

The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of "practice" events at, that the average human a thousand years ago had absolutely no exposure to. Our brains are massively remodeled by this exposure--but so, too, by reading, by television, by video games, by modern electronics, by contemporary music, by contemporary "tools," etc. — Michael Merzenich

To learn is to change how you think. — Michael Merzenich