Recycle your Brain

Millions of synapses undergo plastic changes every time we acquire new knowledge.
(p.119)

Everything we learn at school reorients a preexisting neural circuit in a new direction.
(p.121)

entorhinal cortex, a region of the temporal cortex that contains the famous grid cells that map out space
[…]
their activity cannot help but remain confined to a plane, or, technically, a two-dimensional manifold in high-dimensional space.
[…]
ventral visual cortex excels at representing visual lines and shapes, Broca’s area codes for syntactic trees,
(p.125)
Wernicke’s area
Visual cortex

see also

The Self-Organization of the Cortex
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