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"How to Become a 'Superager' [from The New York Times]"
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Date: December 31, 2016
"An ancient inner layer [of the brain], inherited from reptiles, was presumed to contain circuits for basic survival. The middle layer, the 'limbic system,' supposedly contained emotion circuitry inherited from mammals."
preview | full record— Barrett, Lisa Feldman (b. 1963)
Date: December 31, 2016
"The human brain didn't evolve like a piece of sedimentary rock, with layers of increasing cognitive sophistication slowly accruing over time."
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Date: December 31, 2016
"Rather (in the words of the neuroscientist Georg Striedter), brains evolve like companies do: they reorganize as they expand."
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