At the end of 1999, major media in the world launched a thousand-year-old character, like Marx, Einstein, first or second. Among them, the British "Physics World" magazine selection 10 most outstanding physicists, named "The Father of Relatter" Einstein. In people's eyes, these major scientists are genius, what is the difference between their brain and the common people? This issue has always attracted researchers and ordinary people, but these genius have only Iinstein left a brain specimen, so the opportunity to study Einstein's brain is more precious.
On April 18, 1955 Einstein died in Princeton, USA, and enjoy 76 years old. According to Einstein's wishes, Einstein's family immediately invited Harvey doctor to do anatomy for Einstein's body. After 7 hours of Einstein, Harvey did the Einstein's brain and did preventive treatment. Since then, after measurement, volume, size, and appearance of Einstein's brain, Maxi Doctor cuts Einstein brain into 240 small pieces to carefully analyze.
Einstein's brain has been kept by Harvey doctor. At the same time, Harvey's doctor has been looking for people who are interested in studying Einstein, and have a responsible and research capabilities. In 1995, Harvey finally found the female professor of McMaster University in Canada, and transferred Einstein's brain to Professor Witterson. The main reason for Harvei selected Telsen is that she has a very deep study for the brain, and has a brain specimen of approximately 150 normal people so that she can compare the Einstein's brain.
Einstein's brain studies have once aroused people's strong interest. But many of the previous studies have shown that the brain weight of this physics master is not different from ordinary people. Just after the Einstein brain was cut into 240 small pieces, the experts did not find out whom did not have a difference from ordinary brains. However, when Witterson took over to study Einstein's brain, it made an amazing discovery: Einstein's brain width is significantly exceeded. Researchers believe that this discovery may help explain Einstein with special genius in space and mathematical thinking.
The study of Witterson et al. Is the most detailed analysis of Einstein's brain anatomy. Professor Witterson found that Einstein's brain is significantly different from ordinary people in both.
First, Einstein's brain's left and sole hemisphere is abnormal, more than one centimeter than the average thickness of ordinary people, which causes Einstein brain width more than 15% of ordinary people. The researchers pointed out that the top Ye Zone in the upper part of the brain plays an important role in visual space cognition, mathematical thinking and motion imagination, and the abnormal development of the region can explain why Einstein will form their own unique. Thinking way. Einstein himself said that his scientific thinking process has stronger visuality, and the role starting in the language seems not large.
Another significant feature of the Einstein's brain is a wrinkle in the brain of ordinary people. The wrinkles are typically located between the brain returns adjacent to the cerebral cortex, generally transverse to the lower leaf region. The researchers have speculated that the lack of this wrinkle is likely to cause neurons located in the top of the leaf area to be more easily established, thus making thinking more active.
Witterson said that the Einstein brain is the only based on the analysis of the big brain specimens of her. According to this discovery, Witterson assumes that if the image analysis means discovers these characteristics of Einstein brain, then he is likely to have extraordinary intelligence, so her next work is to find such a baby. And track whether he has this ability in the future, if this assumption is confirmed, then the mystery of the Erztein's ultra-common intelligence will be initially unspeakable, which helps to study the mechanism of human intelligence, and will develop the development of artificial intelligence technology. Play a guiding role.
About 150 brain specimens collected by Witterson from volunteers, Witterson has conducted detailed research on their presence and a total of 30 hours of testing, including intelligence, memory, Three major aspects of music, the test content includes reading, mathematics, language, space imagination. After these volunteers died, Witterson analyzed their brain and compared the anatomical data with volunteers. As a result, she found that different talents can be associated with the different structures of the brain. For example, some musicians have a particularly accurate, and some musicians and ordinary people do not have this ability. The study found that there is a special structure in the brain of the former, and the latter is not.
