During the first ten minutes of class, write your summary of the “Wiring” chapter from John Medina’s Brain Rules. What are some of the most important things that you remember from the chapter? What is special about the wiring of our brains? How does our wiring reflect who we are individually? How does our wiring reveal how we are similar, too? What is the Jennifer Aniston neuron?
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Our personality comes from experience. We are all not exactly the same. Then the same thing goes for our brain. Our brain grows in some places where the brain is most active. We have different regions for the different types for different types of experience we have reserved in life. If some one is bilingual then there is a regain first one you learned and a region for the second one. Every time we experience something twice, the second time your brain becomes active in a curtain region and that region will light up every time that same experience happens. It happens because you try to remember if it is a threat or something good, if it is a threat then you avoid it.
This chapter “wiring” Medina start by comparing jordan and Ken Griffey two well known athletes. Jordan did very poor when he tried to play baseball but Ken did not allthouh they had almost the same physics. Madina also wanted to shows it’s not always about your physic but how your brain is wire.Their Brain were wire differently.What Caught my attention is how the brain is able to wire itself after an experience so it could adapt to it , so next i the same kind of incident happen your brain will respond differently than the first time
In the chapter âwiringâ the reading shows that peopleâs brains respond differently from one another. Michael Jordan was an example used to describe how he is very skilled in basketball, but tries baseball because it was a dream of his. He ended up failing and due to this, he went back to basketball and his brain started to function better which made him become a legend.The experiment with Jennifer Aniston shows how two brains canât store information the same way as each other. The brain also supplies information which could help use be intelligent in other things that wouldnât appear on an IQ test. The brain also processes differently in a different amount of time in all types of people.
The “wiring chapter of Brain Rules, by John Medina, explains how everyones brain is differently wired. No two brains are the same, the wiring is unalike. Not even twin sisters brain have the same wiring. Not even twin sisters brain have the same wiring because once you have experienced something, your brain automatically rewires itself, and it’s doing this constantly. When you learn something, the wiring in your brain changes, what I thought was interesting was that Eric Kandel who is a scientist, discovered that the human nerves learn things in the same way slug nerves learn things. As you learn, neurons constantly swell, sway and split, breaking connections in one spot, gliding over to a near region and form connections with new neighbors. There is a huge difference between someone who learned something or trained at it than someone who doesn’t learn much. Your brain is a huge muscle which grow and gets stronger as you learn. If someone tells you their opinion on something and then you go to experience it yourself, you will end up thinking about their opinion which would have an effect on yours. The Jennifer Aniston neuron questions how you respond to certain images and what is hardwired in your brain holding a special place in your brain. There are different road maps in your brain that controls certain parts of your body, which doctor Ojemann discovered. People have a great number of way of being intelligent many of which don’t show up on IQ Test.
According to brian rule #5 “every brain is wired differentlyâ meaning that every human brain is actually wired differently. Your actions and learning in a daily life changes no he brain like like. Not all brains look the same. What really caught my attention during reading this chapter is part of “more ideas” under it ,it explains how the education systems expects every child to learn the same . By the age of 6 they are expected to read.John medina says ” studies shows that about 10 percent of students do not have brains sufficiently wired to read at the age of 6″ of course hey are different types of learning skills and different types of kids out there. The ones that suffer from disabilities will tend to learn more slower and start reading at a more older age. Some schools have small classes for the outcome of a way better education .Smaller classes are a better learning environment then megaplex house of learning . The smaller the better because teachers can better understand students and can go more in depth into the subject.
For the Chapter of wiring, Medina explains the complexity of the brain by starting with a comparison of basketball legend Michael Jordan’s career in baseball and Ken Griffey Jr., to which he points out that it’s strange to see how a talented individual can play one sport and extremely well, and then move to another and play like he’s never played a sport in his life. Moving from that he explains that learning new things rewires the brain completely. Medina then introduces a neuron that seems to respond when looking at someone who is known, which he calls “The Jennifer Aniston” Neuron. This neuron was found when a couple doctors were mapping the brain and a researcher decides to pull out a picture of Jennifer Aniston, to which the neuron fires up. It was found that every person seems to have a “Jennifer Aniston” neuron, although the neuron fires for different people.
In the chapter âWiringâ Medina stated that âEvery brain is wired differently. Medina started by comparing two great athletes Michael Jordan, and Ken Griffey Jr. Medina shows how two people with similar bodies and strength canât be the same. Jordan tried to play baseball and in his first game he did so poorly that he couldnât have been qualify for a team because Jordan is used to basketball. Griffey did great job in baseball games because he had been playing it for a long time. This shows how each personâs brain works differently than other. The brain shape changes constantly. The more we learn the more our brain rewires. According to Medina âAs neurons learn, they swell, sway, and splitâŠâŠ. Efficiency of information transferâ. This caught my attention because the more knowledge our brain gains the better our thinking skills will be. Medina also compares the thought of two twin brothers. The twin brothers were watching the same movies but their thoughts were different from each another. No two people think the same way because each personâs brain is wired differently. Everything that we see or learn in our daily lives changes the way our brains is wired.
Rahat Ahmed
Prof. J
English
10/11/15
Wiring
In this chapter of the book called “Wiring by Dr. John Medina mentions how learning rewires your brain. Dr. John Medina states that ” when you learn something new, the wiring in the human brain changes. The wiring of the human brain is very unique in a way because at birth our brain is only partially constructed and as time goes it develops with maturity. The human brain won’t be fully assembled until we are in our early 20s.
Each human brain has a different road map. The human brain can be predictable and similar to each other but it wonât never be the same, simply because every human brain has its own independent wiring. Not even identical twin having identical experiences possess brain that wire themselves exactly the same way.
One thing that stood out for me the most in this “Wiring” chapter is the fact that the human brain wiring is related to areas such as acuity and perhaps even language acquisition. I was kind of surprised because I always had thought that everything in the human brain would have it’s own way of operating things. Turns out every human brain experiences dependent wiring as well. Overall this chapter was really interesting because it personally taught me a lot about how the human brain wiring has its own little ways of operating.
Wiring is what gives every human being their personality and it is what divides us and makes us different. Everything we do is different, everything we think is different, and everything we believe is different. Wiring can be traced back to our culture and even our ancestors. The way it works is that we take up everything around us and we wire it to our brain so that we can adapt to the lifestyle. It is like survival in a way. What you do and learn in life physically changes what the brain looks like. Everybody is different, and this is how wiring is unique. People are smart in different things, at a different rates. One person may understand something from the start, where another may understand it at a slower rate. This does not mean that the person at the slower rate is dumber, it is just that the wiring in his brain absorbs it in a different way. One person might get 11 from adding up 5 and 6, while another person might get 11 from adding 8 and 3. Wiring is the function of the brain and how it is designed comes from DNA and the learning environment were around.
In chapter âWiringâ John medina explained about how our brain shaped differently from others and they respond differently. John Medina explained about Michael Jordan that he is a basketball player but he tried to play baseball because it was his dream to play baseball but he failed badly even he was a good athlete. This shows that our brain wired differently according to what we do in our daily lives. John medina also stated that even 2 persons have same information but it will be stored in different parts of brain and shaped differently. Brain works differently for every person and take different amount of time for each personâs brain to respond to the situation.
As the brain learns new things, its physical form changes. New neuron pathways are built and bonds are formed between different regions of the brain, physically altering its shape and size. No two people have the same brain, which is why everyone in different. The brain also recognizes each thing it meets, and has a neuron dedicated to it, For example, each of us has a neuron responsible for remembering our mother’s face, and this neuron “lights up”, or is accessed, when we think of them. I personally am interested in how the brain looks when it is at work, trying to solve a difficult task, and also when it is asleep, still processing information but at a rested pace. Do the neuron paths pump like veins? Does it move at all? I wonder.
This chapter âwiringâ Medina start by comparing jordan and Ken Griffey two well known athletes. Jordan did very poor when he tried to play baseball but Ken did not allthouh they had almost the same physics. Madina also wanted to shows itâs not always about your physic but how your brain is wire.Their Brain were wire differently.What Caught my attention is how the brain is able to wire itself after an experience so it could adapt to it , so next i the same kind of incident happen your brain will respond differently than the first time
In the chapter âWiringâ Medina opens up the topic by bringing up Michael Jordan one of if not the best NBA player of all time, he goes on to say how Jordan won ESPNâs greatest athlete of the 20th century but when Jordan followed his dream of being a baseball player he failed miserably. This has to do with how everyone’s brain is wired differently, us as individual have different aspects on how the brain function within us. Everything we do affect how the brain changes, appears, and develops and in other words rewires the brain.
In John Medina’s “Brain Rules” in the chapter called “Wiring”, it speaks specfically about how the brain is developed differently based on what you do physically. What you do in life and the things you learn and progress in life are what makes the brain seemed wired to develop more. Wiring also pretty much explains that not everybody’s brain is devoloped in the same exact way and everybody’s brain doesn’t process the same thing specifically at the same time at the same rate. Like how when kids on a grade system in elementary school are all thought to be thinking at the same level but however not everybody’s brain is the exact same processes everything at such a correct level. Some people would happen to think and see things and learn things faster and some learn things slower.
In John Medinaâs âWiringâ chapter he speaks on how the brain is wired. According to Medinaâs everyoneâs brain is wired differently. He uses the example of Michael Jordan. He tells us how even though Michael Jordan was an amazing basketball player he was a horrible baseball player. The reason being that he was a basketball player and his brain was wired and used to playing basketball. Medina also says that what we do and learn in life says that what we do and learn in life physically changes what our brain looks like. No two people have the same brain so when it comes to the educational system it is unfair because the grade structures are based on age. Different parts of the brain develop faster than others in different people. The school system ignores the fact that every brain is wired differently. Every brain is not the same. People used to think that there were seven categories of intelligence but with 7 billion people in the world it seemed impossible for there to only be seven.
John Medina, known his his amazing work as not only a molecular biologist, but also known for his work on his famous book, “Brain Rules”. In this chapter, chapter five; Wiring, John Medina starts us off by mentioning a famous name that we may or may not have heard about. He mentions the name “Michael Jordan”. Known for his impressive skills an a NBA basketball player. The reason Medina starts us off with a message about Michael Jordan is because he uses him as an example in this chapter. He starts off with talking about Jordan’s career and how he quit basketball to peruse the baseball career because he always wanted to play it, but in the end he was horrible at it. Medina explains the occurrence for this is because he’s been playing basketball for so long that his brain is wired to the act/playing of basketball. He cannot succeed well in baseball compared to basketball because his brain has basically written a sort of code that helps him easily memorize and strive towards that career.
In chapter âWiringâ John Medina explained how we all have brains but yet are all different and function in their own way. The brain is constantly learning things, so the brain is constantly rewiring itself. What i found interesting was when john stated, ” The brain acts like a muscle: The more activity you do, the larger and more complex it can become.” Pretty cool to think that when you learn something new your brain actually changes. You can wire and rewire your brain with the simple choice of which musical instrument or professional sport you play. Another, thing i found interesting was that out skin weights only nine pounds. This allows the rest of our cells to support our daily lives.
In the fifth chapter of John Medinaâs âBrain Rulesâ, he introduces the idea of wiring, which means that every human beingâs brain works differently and some info that we receive goes to seperate parts of our brains. The more that you learn in everyday life, the more that your brain expands. A lot of the knowledge that is stored in your mind can be used for various things that could greatly benefit you as a result. For instance, when you are learning how to do math problems, it seems very hard for you and you eventually get really frustrated but, if you continue to learn the basics of how to go about the problems, then you gain more knowledge on the topic to the point that it has become very easy to you as a whole. John Medina once stated, âWe have a great number of ways of being intelligent, many of which donât show up on IQ testsâ. In other words, there is no one way to access knowledge or fixed system of how to learn things. We as human beings continue to live, learn and become productive members of society.