{"id":33112,"date":"2017-01-02T22:17:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T06:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/how-to-use-your-brains-delete-button-and-improve-your-learning-skills"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:26:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:26:39","slug":"how-to-use-your-brains-delete-button-and-improve-your-learning-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/how-to-use-your-brains-delete-button-and-improve-your-learning-skills","title":{"rendered":"How To Use Your Brain\u2019s \u2018Delete Button\u2019 And Improve Your Learning Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-use-your-brains-delete-button-and-improve-your-learning-skills.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-use-your-brains-delete-button-and-improve-your-learning-skills.jpg\"\/>There\u2019s an old saying in neuroscience: <b>\u201cneurons that fire together wire together.\u201d<\/b> This means the more you run a neuro-circuit in your brain, the stronger that circuit becomes. This is why, to quote another old saw, <b>\u201cpractice makes perfect\u201d<\/b>. The more you practice piano, or speaking a language, or juggling, the stronger those circuits get.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-use-your-brains-delete-button-and-improve-your-learning-skills.jpg\" width=\"90%\"\/> Scientists have known this for years. However, nowadays researchers learn another part of the truth: In order to learn something, even more important than practicing is the ability to unlearn, or to break down the old neural connections. This is called \u201csynaptic pruning\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whydontyoutrythis.com\/2017\/01\/how-use-your-brains-delete-button-improve-your-learning-skills.html\">http:\/\/www.whydontyoutrythis.com\/2017\/01\/how-use-your-brains...kills.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s an old saying in neuroscience: \u201cneurons that fire together wire together.\u201d This means the more you run a neuro-circuit in your brain, the stronger that circuit becomes. This is why, to quote another old saw, \u201cpractice makes perfect\u201d. The more you practice piano, or speaking a language, or juggling, the stronger those circuits get. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59292,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33112\/revisions\/59292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}