Einstein and mental snapshots
The name A. Einstein is a universal metaphor for genius and intelligence. Even those of us who have trouble with math and physics may be familiar with terms like E = MC2, general and special relativity, and his 1921 Nobel Prize in physics for the photoelectric effect.
His 1905 work is still considered miraculous by superstring theorists; and there are scientists who believe that his Unified Field Theory is correct. He did not work on the atomic bomb, but he alerted President Roosevelt that the Nazis were committed to making such a bomb to win World War II.
Al cashed in his chips in 1955 at age 76 and bequeathed his brain to researchers at
Princeton University. After many years of research it was concluded that nothing
in Einstein’s brain explained his scientific genius.
Lost objects
For the next twenty years, Einstein’s brain was lost in space. Steven Levy cared;
a reporter for the New Jersey Monthly around 1975, set out to hunt him down.
It turned out that it was in the possession of Dr. Thomas Harvey, the pathologist who
He did the autopsy at Princeton. He had taken the brain to his lab in Wichita, Kansas. Tissue samples were sent to interested scientists and the rest were
he returned to Princeton, NJ because of Levy.
One of Einstein’s brain tissue samples was sent to McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, for Dr. Sandra F. Witelson and her team. In 1999, she submitted her test results to the Lancet (British medical journal) for publication.
Einstein’s brain revealed 15% more width compared to other normal cerebral cortices. Specifically, Brodmann Area 39 is the site of mathematical thinking, and the ability to analyze in terms of space and motion; it was significantly larger in Einstein’s brain.
Not words, but clear visual images: it was a specialty of Einstein’s brain,
according to Dr. Witelson. This Area 39 is located in the Parietal lobe and is part of the Cortex Association of our brain; activates Mental Visualizations and potential creativity.
glial cells
Gray matter consists of our brain cells, 100 billion neurons, and in particular their axons and dendrites. The white matter is the complementary glial cells (glue), which
number ten to fifty times more than neurons. However, our glial cells do not get respect.
Until about ten years ago, glials were considered housewives, who simply cleaned
broken and dead neurons.
Today, astrocytes (star-shaped), a type of glial cell, are credited with providing
insulation for the neurons (myelin) located in our Central and Peripheral Nervous System, and by having projections to anchor our neurons to their blood supply.
The glials provide nutrition and support in synaptic signal transmissions (link).
These activities are of primary consideration for life. Glials are also involved in neurotransmitter release and synaptic plasticity (change) and synaptogenesis (growth) of neurons. Our glial cells are deadly serious life-enhancing things.
Profound Statement: It seems that our memories are stored in the synapses of
our neurons. See: Hebb research. Synapse is the connectivity (union) of neurons, from the Greek, meaning to join. You may want to remember that Synaptic
Plasticity is the most important of our neurochemical bases of learning and
memory.
final words 1
Al Einstein said – Imagination is more important than knowledge. One fades into obscurity in five years, the other connects with the cosmos. He also said: Not everything that counts can be counted. And not everything that can be counted,
account Knew more than E=MC2.
mental snapshots
Interested in Einstein’s secrets of mental visualization?
You decide if it applies to common mortals without a 15% wider brain for glial cells.
Look-Link-Snap
1. Close your eyes. Access 8-13 Hz Alpha brain wave cycles
and creates alert relaxation.
2. Look: Place a mental image on the movie screen of your mind: Example: Look, visualize and create a man with a cup of coffee balanced on his head, with grass green hair, standing on a slab of ice. When you decide to take the Look step, you are focusing your Attention through Intention.
3. Link: it is to connect what you see with the new thing that you want
to remember. Our goal is to remember the name of this
man we met at a business conference.
He introduced himself as Joe Greenberg. The truckers order a cup of coffee: a cup of Joe, and seeing it mentally on top of his head is so strange that he’ll never forget his first name is Joe.
His hair looks like a strip of grass, deep green. You
You can hardly forget that hair color; represents the first half of his
surname, Green. He is standing on a slab of ice remembering
us from an Iceberg, and establishes a link with the last half of its
name, Green-Berg.
4. Snap: is to create a long-term mental memory in our
hippocampus that we can recover, and a physiological anchor
in our body we can anchor this strange memory.
All that is needed to create the snapshot is to intentionally blink
your eyes as if they were the lens of a camera three times
quickly. The secret is in three blinks with the lens of your eyes.
You capture the unique image of Joe Greenberg,
with the cup of coffee on her head, green hair, and standing
in an ice barrel one-two-three-times. You break it once, and
open your eyes for a second; close and break a second time;
open your eyes for the third time and take this strange image
again for just a second. Now you have it in less than a minute.
final words 2
This Look-Link-Snap system works to remember names and faces.
Find a way that helps you access her face, height, or posture.
Turn a book into a memorable mental visualization, based on its key
ideas Attend a lecture and remember the main ideas using
your eyes to create a mental snapshot of the ideas discussed.
Do you know that the average college graduate forgets 92% of what he has
read, seen, or heard within fifteen minutes, when memory is left to chance?
Now you have a tool that is easy to use, always works and develops your
learning and memory skills. Note that there are scientists who offer
evidence indicating that training your imagination creates a firewall to prevent
Alzheimer disease. Yes really. What’s the secret again? Look-Link-Snap.
See ya,
copyright © 2006
H. Bernard Wechsler
http://www.speedlearning.org
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