10 MYTHS ABOUT HUMAN BRAIN.
- We use only 10 percent of our brains.
- Flashbulb memories” are precise, detailed and persistent.
- It’s all downhill after 40 (or 50 or 60 or 70).
- We have five senses.
Sure, sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch are the big ones. But we have many other ways of sensing the world and our place in it.
- Brains are like computers.
- The brain is hard-wired.
- conk on the head can cause amnesia.
- We know what will make us happy.
- We see the world as it is.
- Men are from Mars, women are from Venus.
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