After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
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Daydreamers are better at solving complex problems.
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Falling in love raises levels of nerve growth in a person's brain for about a year and can improve their memory.
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An ant brain has about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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A human brain produces as many as 12,000 to 50,000 thoughts per day, depending on how deep a thinker a person is.
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Caffeine boosts memory.
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