The Psychology of Menu Reading: What Your Choices Really Mean

 

A baby's brain can use up to 50% of the total glucose supply, which may help explain why babies need so much sleep.

Making music may actually have a quantifiable effect on our brain. When you hook up guitar players to electrodes, researchers discovered that brainwaves of musicians synchronize when they play duets.

The brains of children that have been exposed to violence within the family have the same patterns of activity as soldiers that have fought in a war.

New Brain Connections Are Created Every Time You Form a Memory.

The part of your brain that lets you see is actually nowhere near your eyes.

The average time it takes to forget a great love is 17 months and 26 days.

Chocolate discharges the same chemicals into your body which is produced when you start falling in love. The smell of chocolate increases Theta brain waves which triggers relaxation.

Thinking in a foreign language makes your decisions more rational.

The cerebrum is the largest part of the brain, accounting for 85 percent of the organ's weight.

The count of brain cells remains the same right from childhood to death.

The human brain doesn’t have a good ability to distinguish between fantasy and real experiences. Thus, someone can experience a movie as if it were an event that happened in the real world. You can feel sadness, fear or enthusiasm the same way you would if you were truly experiencing that event.

The brain weighs a mere 1.5 kilos on average, but consumes 20% of the energy and oxygen used by the body.

If a person tries to remember something, but still continues to look you in the eye, be sure - you are deceived.

The right side of your brain is more closely related to emotional processing and the left side, to languages.

Your brain is more creative when it’s tired.

The brain is much more active at night than during the day.

An hour and a half of sweating can temporarily shrink the brain as much as one year of aging.

An adult brain weighs about 3 pounds.

Your brain’s storage capacity is considered virtually unlimited.

The number of minutes your brain can survive without oxygen before it starts to die is 4-6 minutes.

Feeling tired? Go ahead and yawn. Yawning cools down the brain, research suggests. Sleep deprivation raises brain temperature

Writing negative thoughts and tossing them in trash improves your mood.

If your mind wanders often, there’s a 85% chance that you’re subconsciously unhappy with your life.

Your brain does creative work better when you’re tired.

Humans grow faster at night than they do during the day because a small part of the brain, the pituitary gland, releases a growth hormone at night while a person sleeps.

Often, When a person starts crying ,they will remember other sad events to increase his crying ‘Scumbag-brain'.

Every time your heart beats, your arteries carry 20 to 25 percent of your blood to the brain.

Scientists say the brain purposely forgets certain memories in order to avoid information overload, and emotional hangovers.

If a human's brain worked like a digital video recorder in a television, it would be able to hold three million hours of TV shows, which is equivalent to letting the TV run continuously for more than 300 years.

After 30 years, our brain gradually begins to lose mass. This may partially explain the reason behind our memory failing us, over time.

When looking at a crowd, we can only recognize two faces at a time.

You can’t read in a dream because reading and dreaming are functions of different sides of the brain, which don’t cooperate while dreams!

You have a second brain in your gut, called the Enteric Nervous System. This is where the term 'gut feeling' comes from.

Headache pain feels like it starts in your brain, but is caused by sensations from nearby skin, joints, sinuses, blood vessels or muscles.

The brain takes the longest of any organ to develop and goes through more changes than any other organ.

Your mind writes monotonous speeches of boring people to make it sound interesting.

From all the oxygen that a human consumes twenty percent(20%) goes to the brain.

Train your mind to see the good in everything.

Every second, there are 100,000 chemical reactions happening in the human brain.

Your brain needs a constant supply of oxygen. As little as five minutes without oxygen can cause some brain cells to die, leading to severe brain damage.

We can only store between 5 and 9 bits of information at once.

The human brain continues to develop until your late 40s. It is the only organ in the body that develops for this long of a time – and it sees more changes than any other organ as well.

It only takes 6 minutes for brain cells to react to alcohol.

Due to the new discovery of many brain parasites, scientists say that a Zombie Apocalypse is possible.

When a person dies, they have 7 minutes of brain activity left in which they see a dream like sequence of their memories!.

We cry when we are very happy because our hypothalamus in our brain can't distinguish the difference between strong happiness and strong sadness.

Size doesn’t matter in the brain. There is no evidence that a larger brain is smarter than a smaller brain.

Headaches are caused by a chemical reaction in your brain combined with the muscles and nerves of your neck and head.

The human brain consists of 60% fat, making it one of the fattiest organs in the body.

Learning new things changes your brain and increases your intelligence—even if you're older.

When musicians play together, their brain waves synchronize.

You can "rewire" your brain to be happy by simply calling 3 things you are grateful for every day for 21 days.

A piece of brain tissue the size of a grain of sand contains 100,000 neurons and 1 billion synapses.

Wearing a helmet can reduce the risk of brain injury by as much as 80%.

Your brain isn't fully formed until age 25.

It takes about 0.2 seconds for your brain to understand the light that reaches your eye.

Your mind write monotonous speeches of boring people to make it sound interesting.

When you first meet people it is common to forget their names - a phenomenon called the next-in-line effect. This is because people are too worried about themselves, and what they'll say next, to focus on remembering the names of people they're introduced to.

The brain can’t feel pain. It interprets pain signals sent to it, but it does not feel pain.

The brain is capable of surviving for 5 to 6 minutes only if it doesn’t get oxygen after which it dies.

While awake, a human brain can generate enough energy to power a light bulb (between 10-23 watts).

Convincing yourself you slept well tricks your brain into thinking it did.

People who practice mindfulness meditation for 30 minutes a day find noticeable changes in brain connectivity in just two weeks.

Your brain can fit into approximately 1 million songs, as the storage capacity of a human brain exceeds 4 terabytes(TB) according to research.

The smarter the person is, the faster he thinks in mind, and the sloppier or worse his handwriting is.

Brain is the fattest organ in the body, contains 100 billion neurons and nerve cells (15 times the total human population on Earth) and a trillion glial cells and has around 150,000 miles of blood vessels.

Drugs and alcohol interfere with the brain's signalling mechanisms and have some effect on dopamine and upload systems, which provide for some of our sense of pleasure and reward.

Sixty percent of the human brain is made of fat.

The larger the number of Competitors, the lesser the Will to Compete. When you see that a large number of people have appeared to compete, you instantly calculate a lower probability of winning assumed by your mind.

Brain surgery can be performed while the patient is awake with no pain or discomfort. The brain has no pain receptors and feels no pain.

When the brain tries to do two things at once, it divides and conquers, dedicating one-half of our gray matter to each task.

Brain messages travel between neurons in just one thousandth of a second.

Your brain size changes when stressed for a long period of time.

Your brain does more creative work when you’re tired.

Eyeballs are a direct physical extension of the brain. 

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