Cognitive reserve is the idea that if you spend much of your time learning new things then you will have more synapses in your brain and that can make you resistant to mental decline that comes with aging.
But one of the things that I think is interesting about this is that you can have a lot of cognitive reserve but not be intelligent or even well educated.
A person might have learned many wrong facts and make many wrong conclusions, but the effort to learn and think will build synapses and increase his cognitive reserve.
There might even be evolutionary consequences of this.
But one of the things that I think is interesting about this is that you can have a lot of cognitive reserve but not be intelligent or even well educated.
A person might have learned many wrong facts and make many wrong conclusions, but the effort to learn and think will build synapses and increase his cognitive reserve.
There might even be evolutionary consequences of this.
The first gulp from the glass of science will make you an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you - Werner Heisenberg. (More at my Blog & Website)
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