tailieunhanh - IELTS Academic Reading Sample 51 - The History of the Tortoise

IELTS Academic Reading Sample 51 - The History of the Tortoise sẽ giúp các bạn biết được cách thức làm bài thi cũng như củng cố kiến thức của mình, chuẩn bị tốt cho kì thi sắp tới. Mời các bạn tham khảo. | A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently In the last decade a revolution has occurred in the way that Everything the brain sees hears or touches has multiple scientists think about the brain. We now know that the interpretations. The one that is ultimately chosen is decisions humans make can be traced to the firing patterns simply the brain s best theory. ln technical terms these of neurons in specific parts of the brain. These discoveries conjectures have their basis in the statistical likelihood of have led to the field known as neuroeconomics which one interpretation over another and are heavily influenced studies the brains secrets to success in an economic by past experience and importantly for potential environment that demands innovation and being able to do iconoclasts what other people say. things differently from competitors. A brain that can do this is an iconoclastic one. Briefly an iconociost is a The best way to see things differently to other people is to person who does something that others say can t he done. bombard the brain with things it has never encountered before. Novelty releases the perceptual process from the This definition implies that iconoclasts are different from chains of past experience and forces the brain to make other people but more precisely it is their brains that are new judgments. Successful iconoclasts have an different in three distinct ways perception fear response extraordinary willingness to be exposed to what is fresh and social intelligence. Each of these three functions and different. Observation of iconoclasts shows that they utilizes a different circuit in the brain. Naysayers might embrace novelty while most people avoid things that are suggest that the brain is irrelevant that thinking in an different. original even revolutionary. way is more a matter of personality than brain function. But the held of The problem with novelty however is that lt tends to neuroeconomics was born out of the realization .