Detecting macrostructural brain alterations from the norm does not necessarily imply causality. It is well documented that certain parts of the brain can physically grow in size due to usage even in adulthood - in a fairly famous early MRI study, it was shown that a part of the hippocampus of taxi-cab drivers significantly enlarged after a few months of driving, and shrank again if they stopped driving for several months.
More permanent changes can occur if intense use occurs at a young age. In pianists who begin playing by the age of seven, the corpus callosum (the neural bridge between the two hemispheres) was measured to be an average of 30 percent ( ! ) bigger than controls and those who began training after age 10.
Einstein's brain may very well have been structurally different from the norm, but we cannot say that this is due to genetics, as he may have simply nurtured these areas of the brain from a young age.
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Shit. My desktop at home still has monkey island installed... Guybrush Threepwood may only be a wannabe software pirate, but better safe than sorry.
games? i still have "swap" my pr0n to finish a single scene... This isn't the tech you're looking for. move along, move along
Further proof that the evangelicals are right; science is sinful. Jesus Christ died so that I can fudge my data.
Detecting macrostructural brain alterations from the norm does not necessarily imply causality. It is well documented that certain parts of the brain can physically grow in size due to usage even in adulthood - in a fairly famous early MRI study, it was shown that a part of the hippocampus of taxi-cab drivers significantly enlarged after a few months of driving, and shrank again if they stopped driving for several months.
More permanent changes can occur if intense use occurs at a young age. In pianists who begin playing by the age of seven, the corpus callosum (the neural bridge between the two hemispheres) was measured to be an average of 30 percent ( ! ) bigger than controls and those who began training after age 10.
Einstein's brain may very well have been structurally different from the norm, but we cannot say that this is due to genetics, as he may have simply nurtured these areas of the brain from a young age.