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Quotations: About Maps,
Puzzles, Thinking,
Creativity and Objectivity
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Mental exercise is....... important:
reading, doing puzzles - challenging your mind. If you work your brain, your
brain benefits. You either use it or lose it
Willian
Greenough Ph.D., Neuroscientist, University of Illinois |
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Your
brain is like a bratty child: It gets into trouble when you don't keep
it busy. To stay mentally sharp, you need to work your mental muscles each
and every day. Do jigsaw puzzles.
These help strengthen the part of the brain that controls spatial relations
- the ability to recognize how things piece together.
Robert
Friedland, M.D.Case Western University in Cleveland |
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Do puzzles. People who do jigsaw puzzles show
greater spatial ability, which you use when you look at a map
Neuroscientist
Sherry Willis of Pennsylvania State University |
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Anything
that's intellectually challenging can probably serve as a kind of stimulus
for dendritic growth, which means that it adds to the computational reserves
in your brain.
Arnold
Scheibel, head of U.C.L.A's Brain Research Institute |
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Evidence
is accumulating that the brain works a lot like a muscle - the harder you
use it, the more it grows. Although scientists had long believed the brain's
circuitry was hard-wired by adolescence and inflexible in adulthood,
its newly discovered ability to change and adapt is apparently with us
well into old age. Best of all, this research has opened up an exciting world of
possibilities for treating strokes and head injuries - and warding
off Alzheimer's Disease.
Daniel
Golden; Building a Better Brain, LIFE June 1994 |
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The
task is to keep the conscious mind busy with a small, meaningful activity
like
completing a puzzle
while the unconscious is able to perceive - piece together- solutions to
life's larger conflicts, both personal and communal.
Through
creative reflection and focused first time experiential activity we grow
dendrites (neurons) and seed the state of our own future growth, physically,
emotionally, spiritually.
Mapzzles ® 2006
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