I found this to be a most interesting article. I have known for a long time that the brain can adapt and transfer functions from one part to another. Having this broke down was interesting.

I agree that kids brains today are wire quite different than older brains. One example if the increase in ADD kids. If you watch them, their attention span tops out at about 15 minutes: the time until a commercial on TV.

Now this raises the question why can they focus so long on a video game? I don thave a good answer but there is an intersting device to help these kids increase focus. You can read about it here. It is a Playstation device and seems to work.

As far as capabilities I konw that kids to day can focus on several things at once. I konw that I can do that as well. I can’t work on as many as my kids but their training has been more focused than mine.

I found the comment about rewiring brains so that the visual speech parts could learn to read. I didn’t know that was what happened when you learned to read. I figures reading was located in the visual part not the speeking parts.

I want to find out more about these things.

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