The Neural Depths of Our Ever-Changing Cognition

There are many theories that scientists, in-due circumstances, try to extrapolate as to why the brain goes through the ever-changing neuronal alterations that it goes through because of focused attention. One of these theories is one that many neuroscientists aptly call neuroplasticity. This theory, as some philosophers would have us to believe, goes against the current dogma of the materialistic viewpoints that many neuroscientists hold about the mind-body interaction. The way we focus our attention has a big effect on how our brain changes—whether it is through the internet or through other technological devices—the way we use our brains’ neurocircuitry to focus our attention has created a multifaceted effect on how our brain functions. This shift in informational retrieval has transformed our society and even our cognition. Therefore, to narrow this paradigm even further, our society is looking at some major changes to come about because of the emergent cutting-edge research by neuroscientists as to how we can improve our brains’ neuronal development through neuroplasticity.

Knowledge and information is one way that our society has advanced as much as it has. We are a more driven and competitive society than we were decades ago because of how technology and neuroscience have both advanced to keep up with our ever-growing appetite to explore the untapped potential of our increasingly plastic cognition. The more we use our brains’ cognitive reserves, the more we strengthen the connections between the white matter components of our brains’ neurons, therefore strengthening the various connections of the cerebral frontal cortex. In accordance to this, the evolution of our society has grown profusely throughout the years.

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