
NEURODIVERSITY: Why No Two Brains Are Alike
The Next Big Idea
How Do We Learn to Read?
When things become automatic, they're inflexible. The meaning of a word comes for free after thousands and thousands of hours of staring at a squiggly line. So if we want to behave flexibly, we need noisier or more effortful control systems in the brain. And that experience of being in a situation that you're not prepared for is exactly the kind of plasticity inducing learning that will help your brain stay adaptable and plastic and flexible with your environment.
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