Creating Passionate Users has a great write up of an academic study that shows neurons are developed in direct correlation to a stimulating physical environment:
“…Eight years after Gould defied the dogma of her field and proved that the primate brain creates new cells, she has gone on to demonstrate that the structure of the brain is incredibly influenced by one’s surroundings…”
As education gets increasingly supplanted to non-physical environments, will there be a increase or decrease in mental stimulation?
Really worth ploughing through the whole post…