Just as Barbara had realized when she trained and stimulated neural networks through repetition of brain exercises that targeted problem areas, I realized firsthand that "Children with learning disabilities can often go beyond compensation and correct their underlying problems.... Although I eventually strengthened the neural networks corresponding to reading in my head, I still comprehend things better aloud. ... Through habit and repeated practice I can enhance my current weaknesses by strengthening weak neural networks. ...

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Revonsuo (2000) cites studies that demonstrated how mental imagery can improve the neural mechanisms that generate actual actions (Decety, 1996), and argues that such virtual reality practice and mental training during dreams constitute realistic simulations in a safe environment that can enhance perceptual and motor skills and sharpen real life responses to similar threats should they occur. ... They also suggest that amygdalocortical network may be primed to perform more immediate and appropriate emotional evaluation of potential danger. ... The incorporation interacts with a network of exis...

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Avoidance of Path Dependence Path dependence is a characteristic of neural networks (both artificial and biological) whereby they are strongly dependent on their learning history, and initial starting point, in attaining a desirable solution to a problem. ...

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The theory is that hormones produced by the developing testes might be produced off schedule and cause the brain's neural networks to develop in such a way that the child will exhibit homosexual indicators in early childhood, and therefore, he will mature into a gay male. ...

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