Summary Of Secrets Of The Brain By Carl Zimmer

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In this article by Carl Zimmer, he learned from Van Wedeen and other scientists. The process of discovery and observation is about how the brain work and also the secrets that the brain has. I learned different interesting things about the secrets of the brain and how to work, for example on one of his experience in the process to discover how the brain work he thought about one experience or memory that he had with his daughter when they walked to the school in the snow and in his experience he said

“My memory of my walk with my daughter was coordinated by a seahorse-shaped fold of neurons called the hippocampus, which reactivated a vast web of links throughout my brain that had first fired when I had clambered over the snowbanks and formed those memories.”
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Also in this article, I learned the importance of the technologies in the process of discovery the secrets of the brain. Another discovery that in this article we can see is that in 2012 Van Wedeen, discover that our brain is like a grid, and he believes that it is possible that our thoughts move along those lines from one region of the brain to

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