How to pronounce “cortices” in English

So I really do think this is-- the only way you're going to know whether you're getting the benefits is how it shows up in your own life.But you don't keep meditating because you think your prefrontal cortices are changing.

That's what you need in order to be a high-performing person.Researchers found that already at age five, you can see if children have well-developed prefrontal cortices.And what they did is they made an experiment where they had people or children sit down in a chair in a laboratory setting.

DARPA is very interested in all sorts of things that improve human performance.This study had two monkeys in different rooms, with soundproofing between them, wired together via implants in their auditory cortices, so the

People who meditate maybe 10 minutes a day, after a couple months their brains look different, these regions are bigger and better connected.People who work out on a regular basis who used to be sedentary, again, studies show that in as little as a couple of months of regular workouts, their prefrontal corticesare bigger and denser and better connected.

the streets of London have a thicker hippocampus at the end of their training than they did at the beginning. The hippocampus is a part of the brain that's involved in visual, spatialmemory. Pianists who work routinely with certain kinds of movements have thicker, mo-motor cortices in the parts that control fine motor regions.In one study I read it's very interesting. They took two groups of skilled pianists and they had them practice a certain kind of song or piece that involved certain specific motor