Tuesday, September 1, 2009

METANEUROPLASTIFICATION


Def: The rewiring of the brains of entire populations caused by a novel technology, event or change in circumstance.

Example: TV has led to a metaneuroplastification of the American people in many ways. This includes the rewiring of cortical regions that effects behaviors from eating habits to shortened attention spans.


There, I've coined it. If you use it you owe me a nickle.

1 comment:

oc1dean said...

Sorry Peter I don't see the word nickle in my dictionary but I guess it is a variant including one Etymology of goblin
Dean

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