第一章 有目的的练习

Each right answer followed by a wrong answer was assumed to be evidence that Steve had reached the limit of his digitspan memory

Steve's average score of 8.5 for the fourth session indicates that he could usually remember an eight-digit number and usually missed a nine-digit number, although there were plenty of exceptions because some strings were naturally easier to remember than others.

Violin teacher Dorothy DeLay: Step by step, she helps students reach beyond their limits

第2章 大脑的适应能力

The knowledge, London's legendary taxi-driver test, puts up a fight in the age of GPS

The gray matter is the brain tissue that contains most of the brain's neurons

In particular, the taxi drivers had more gray matter in their posterior hippocampi than those who didn't drive taxis.