Many still believe that we only use 10% of the brain. However, despite this statement being very widespread or over the years, it is not truly scientific.
This is because it has been proven that on a daily basis we can use 100% of all regions cerebral, and not just 10% as said in some books and movies and mistakenly linked to famous scientists.
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Where did the idea of using only 10% of the brain come from?
It is not clear where the claim that we can only use 10% of all our brain activity came from. After all, this information was passed on very quickly, despite having been identified for the first time in 1936, in the book “How to Win Friends and Influence People”.
Moreover, this claim has also been wrongly linked with the American psychologist William James and even Albert Einstein. However, there is no concrete evidence that either of the two have confirmed this information within neuroscience.
In addition, in the 2014 film “Lucy”, this belief that we use only 10% of our brain was used as the main theme of the plot.
As a result, many people still believed in this information, since the film was relevant at the time, prompting many people to watch it.
How do we manage to use 100% of our brain activity?
Despite everything, scientific advances within imaging tests, such as Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI), made it easier to analyze the activated brain regions when we perform some action.
In this way, despite neuroscience being a very mysterious and complex scientific area for scientists, it is already possible to answer many questions that were previously difficult to answer.
With this, there was confirmation that different areas of the brain are activated depending on the activity carried out. So we don't use 100% of all areas at the same time, but we don't limit ourselves to just 10% of any specific region or neural connection.