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The idea that people use only 10% of the brain is a persistent myth. Modern brain imaging shows activity distributed across many brain regions, with different networks becoming more or less active depending on the task, behavior and state. Brain injuries also show that damage to many different areas can produce meaningful functional changes, which would not make sense if most of the brain were unused.
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Primary DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-0842-x
Source Repository: arXiv / Nature / IEEE
Conflict of Interest: None Declared
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