Brain Facts

• If we could build a computer today as complex as the human brain, that computer would be 100 stories tall and be big enough to cover the entire state of Texas.
• There has been more progress into brain research in the last 10 years than in all previous human history.
• The adult brain contains 100 billion neurons. Each of these neurons has thousands of dendrites.
• The single brain is capable of storing more information than all the libraries in the world.
• The corpus callosum connects the left and right halves of the brain.
• Almost all dyslexics have a dominant right brain.
• 50% of Olympic athletes are dyslexic.
• Hemispheric specialization is not an all-or-none phenomenon; it falls on a continuum.
• When people develop a mental area they consider weak, this development produces a synergetic effect. All areas improve.
• Our brains are capable of infinitely more complex tasks than have been thought.
• Because memory is a process which is based on linking and association, the fewer items there are in a recall store, the less will be the possibility for new items to be registered and connected. Memory process is like a rolling snowball - the bigger the ball becomes, the faster it moves.
• The brain weighs only three pounds.