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The 10% Brain Myth
Do We Only Use 10% of Our Brain?
- Myths
- 51 s
They say you only use ten percent of your brain. Where the idea came from, what brain scans actually show, and the true part hiding inside the myth.
Sources (3)
- Barry L. Beyerstein, "Do we really use only 10 percent of our brains?", Scientific American 2004 (opens in a new tab)
- Christian Jarrett, "Great myths of the brain: We only use 10 per cent", The Psychologist 2014 (opens in a new tab)
- Peter Lennie, "The Cost of Cortical Computation", Current Biology 2003
