SocialPipeline 03/03/2012 (p.m.)

• School of Thinking » 2010 » March

  • Babies do have plenty of neurons. More than adults. The brain is the only organ of the body that starts off big and gets smaller as unused neurons die off. Babies may have a 100 times more neurons than you do. However, a baby’s brain lacks connectivity. It lacks neural pathways. These have to be built up over a lot of time and a lot of repetition.

     

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