scipsy:

- The human brain is so sophisticated it takes nearly 20 years to mature

- In the womb, humans grow 8,000 new brain cells every second

- By the time humans are born they have all the brain cells they will ever need

- The human brain is the “most sophisticated thing” in the known universe

- New-born babies can recognise their mother’s face after just a few hours

 - Babies can see in the womb but only in black and white. However their eyes are sensitive enough to detect the dim light passing through their mother’s belly

 - Humans blink up to 20 times every minute. Each blink lasts around half a second. But add them together, and humans are living in the dark for more than an hour every day

- Each brain cell will make, on average, 10,000 connections with other brain cells

- Learning to balance and co-ordinate your body is so complex the area of the brain devoted to this task contains as many cells as the rest of the brain put together

-  Young divers in Thailand have taught their eyes to focus underwater by making their irises contract rather than dilate. All children can develop this skill if they start at a young enough age

thanatesque:

In psychology and cognitive science, a memory bias is a cognitive bias that either enhances or impairs the recall of a memory (either the chances that the memory will be recalled at all, or the amount of time it takes for it to be recalled, or both), or that alters the content…