• Question: how is your brain diffrent to other adults

    Asked by Reece to Iroise on 8 Nov 2016.
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      Iroise Dumontheil answered on 8 Nov 2016:


      Our brains are all different, in the same way that we look different. The overall structure and organisation of our brains is broadly similar between people (although for example language is mostly in the left hemisphere of right-handed people and 50-50% in the left or the right hemisphere in left-handed people) but beyond that there are differences, which are related to the experiences we have had and what we have learned over the years. For example I learned how to play the clarinet when I was a child and a teen, so the brain regions that control my finger movements, and their connections to the brain regions that can read a music sheet, would be different from those regions in someone who has never played a musical instrument.

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