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Using Play to Rewire & Improve Your Brain
Huberman Lab
The Development of the Brain Through Passive Experience
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The developing brain is able to learn through passive experience because the neurons, the nerve cells, in the developing brain are much more over connected than they will be later in life. The process play is largely a process of engaging pruning of neural connections and strengthening of the remaining connections. What this means is that it is through the process of play that we become who we as adults have been for most of our lives. As far as i know, there's never been a reported case of an individual with a plastic or hyperplastic brain which was first developed during childhood.
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