Train Specific Parts of your Brain

Did you know that while your brain acts as a whole, it has specific parts dedicated to unique functions?

The credit that we have a specific area in the brain goes to a German anatomist Korbinian Brodmann.

He identified fifty-two unique areas. He was not the first. Prior, researchers had already identified a few areas, Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area, for example, both linked to speech.

His study identified all unique areas, building a map of the human brain known as cytoarchitectonic maps. To do so, they used a special dye which could show the differences in the different areas.

Specific parts of your brain are responsible for more than just vision and motor skills. We have specific areas for spirituality and religion. We have areas which aid in problem solving, reasoning or decision making.

What is interesting is brain activity is both localized and generalized. So a skill, reasoning, for example, acts locally. The neurons in an area only connect to other neurons in proximity.

When you experience your personality in action, it appears there is a “whole you.” Everything in your brain is reacting and responding. But specialized areas in your brain drive the show.

For example, the prefrontal cortex is involved in planning, decision-making, and moderating social behavior. Yet, when it does so, it has to consider emotional context or even your spatial positioning at that moment.

So different parts of your brain come together to create what we call awareness or consciousness. Integrating various specialized regions, creating a sense of self that feels continuous and unified.

The key learning? Areas that you focus on grow and develop. Areas that you don’t wither away.

So if you stop making decisions, for example, your ability to do so with diminish. Practice, like everything else in the human body, makes things better, not worse.

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