Hence, even a complicated act that demands concentration at first, like finding a piece of chocolate in a maze or backing out of the driveway, eventually becomes an effortless habit. Its evolutionary role is clear and crucial: it allows the brain to save energy and perform common tasks efficiently. This process of turning a sequence of actions into an automatic routine is known as “chunking,” and it forms the basis of all habit formation. When the researchers repeated the experiment, however, they noticed something interesting.Īs the mice gradually learned where the chocolate was and memorized how to get there – go straight, then turn left – their brain activity decreased. They could smell the chocolate and they began searching for it. When the mice were first put in the maze, their brain activity spiked. Using special equipment, the researchers could monitor the brain activity of the mice as they sniffed their way to the chocolate. The mice had to find their way to a piece of chocolate that’d been placed at the end of a T-shaped maze. In the 1990s, a group of researchers at MIT were studying mice to learn more about how habits are formed in the brain.
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In the not so distant past blogs were a vibrant platform, the blogosphere was the place were books were made or broken. I count several of them among my best reading experiences.īut the past is, as L.P Hartley reminds us, a foreign country - they do things differently there. I went on to read a whole bunch of his books and hugely enjoyed them. My copy is from 1987, so it's actually 36 years since I first and last read it. Legend, David Gemmel's debut novel, was published in 1984. I've broken these things up into sections as it turns out that I went on at length! I am, however, going to talk about reading it twice with ~40 years between the reads, leading into the whole business of seeing things with new (or older) eyes, and wandering into the territory of tribalism, identity, and the emotional bonds we form with books. Relax, I am not going to attack this novel! The 5* from my original review can stand. 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