Silver - Module 1 - Setting Forth

Your prefrontal cortex, behind your forehead, is the unique human structure that controls reasoning, planning, and decision making.

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The motor cortex is the brain’s most reliable memory producer.

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The visual cortex rivals the motor cortex as our most effective memory producer.

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In traditional instruction, the longer we talk, the more kids we lose.

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Your brain has no single area that contains your memories.

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The hippocampus, near your limbic system, encodes memories and then sends that information back to the region where it originated.

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The more brain areas involved, the more dendrites are grown, the deeper and more lasting your learning.

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Unlike short term memory, long term memory’s capacity is unlimited.

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There are more connections from the limbic system to the prefrontal cortex than vice versa.

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The prefrontal cortex, the brain’s boss, does not fully mature until our early 20s.

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