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Englisch > Deutsch: Sachbuch zur Hirnforschung und Meditation

Thema: Hirnforschung und Meditation
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Preface
As I watched my three children growing up, the question frequently came to mind: How do they do it? How do they learn so quickly? Then what happened during the teenage years? Many years of reflection have evolved into this book: Your Brain is a River, not a Rock. The brain is the interface between us and our world. We see the world; we make meaning of our experience; we respond to the world through brain functioning. And the brain is not set in stone. The circuits in the brain are continually sculpted by experience.
The understanding that our brain changes with every experience has galvanized thinking and research in neuroscience. Twenty years ago, neuroscientists thought brain circuits only changed during critical periods when children were very young. Now, it is known that experience changes the brain from birth to old age. Life can be pictured as the progressive development of the brain circuits leading to the progressive transformation of how we see the world.
This book begins at the beginning – we are born with our brain unas-sembled. But you don’t need to worry; he brain knows what to do. The dual engines of natural development and daily experience build brain cir-cuits that allow us to see and behave in the world. These brain circuits determine waking and sleeping cycles, determine perception, determine our golf swing and our political decisions.
Your Brain is a River, not a Rock gives you the information to choose ex-periences that will support greater growth and success. I thank my wife, Nita, who spent many hours reading and commenting on the text to make this book clearer. Also, I thank my three daughters – Dariana, Joella and Avery – for putting the text into Indesign, final editing of the text and help with the graphics. Read on and enjoy!
SECTION I
THIS IS YOUR BRAIN
How is the brain an interface between us and our world? Is the brain like a computer that needs constant upgrades? Do we have any control over how brain circuits are connected? Is everyone’s brain the same?
This section addresses these questions. We will discuss how different brain parts function, and how brain areas develop and change across the lifespan. We’ll explore brain differences in men and women; how the brain is the foundation for the mind; and what we can do to support continued brain development across the life span.
Chapter 1
We Create Our Reality
We create our reality. You’ve probably heard that statement from moti-vational speakers, new-age thinkers, and your parents. From a brain perspective it is completely true. The brain circuits we have right now determine how we see and respond to the world, and each experience we have strengthens the brain circuits that have been activated by that experience. This can constrain us to see the world in the same way – if we choose the same types of experiences every day, we are only reinforcing our current world view. If we seek out new experiences, consider different points of view, then these new experiences will update brain connections and we will see the world differently.
We also create our reality on the level of perception itself. This first chapter explores how the sensory system changes what the brain re-ceives: edges are enhanced and missing information is filled in. As you go through this chapter, there are many exercises so that you can explore how you see the world. Be sure to do each activity before moving on – they are fun and you will learn more.
Are you ready to begin? Ok, look steadily at the black dot in Fig. 1.1. be-low. Don’t move your eyes. Focus on the dot for 20 to 30 seconds. What starts to happen? Did you notice a white halo around the dot? It looks like an eclipse of the sun. If you didn’t notice this, put this page in bright light, close one eye and look again. Stare at the dot. You can move your gaze to look around the edge of the dot. Do you see a white ring around the dot?
What is this? Are you seeing the aura of the dot? Or the subtle energy field of the dot? Maybe your perception is moving to a higher plane!
Sorry. It has a simpler explanation. The dot’s “aura” is caused by a pro-cess called “lateral inhibition” which takes place in the retina of the eye.
Our eyes have evolved to enhance edges of objects, because edges have survival information. Edges mark where one object ends, and another begins – be it food, friend or foe. When light activates the retina’s rod cells, which are sensitive to black and white, the rod cells fire – and then they turn off the firing of the rods around them. This is called “lateral inhibition”.
When you looked at the dot, the rods did not fire if the black dot fell upon them, and they did not inhibit their neighbors. The rods that the light from the white page fell upon fired and also actively inhibited their neighbors. So, the brain received no information from the rods the black dot fell on, and received lot of information where the white page fell. At the edge of the black dot the rods just inside the black dot were inhibited by the rods outside. So, you see a darker ring around the inside of the dot. In contrast, the rods just on the outside of the ring were not in-hibited as much as the other rods that white light fell on. Do you see what happened? Every other rod the white page fell on was inhibited by neurons all around it. However the rods just outside the dot were only inhibited by rods the pages fell on and not the ones where the black dot fell. Consequently, the brain registered this as more intense firing, as we see a light ring around the dot. Notice this effect was not coming from the object; the sensory apparatus in the eye was the sole cause of this effect.
Artists use this physiological effect to accentuate boundaries between objects. Where a dark and a light object touch, you see a darker line on the dark side and a light object touch, you see a darker line on the dark side and a lighter line on the light side. These are called Mach Bands.

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