if u had a pair of twins, males aged 30 (just to help u picture it better) and one had been kept in a dark room with no tv, radio, just a toilet and the bare essentials to survive, ie. basic food, and spoke to no one for his whole life, and the other had been brought up in an ordinary lifestyle, school, college, a job, wife and kids etc, would the first twin have a physically smaller brain?like this... o < first twin's brain 0 < second twin's brain
2007-03-26 14:33:48 · 5 answers · asked by KELLY F 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
yes it should...if you look at observations of feral children who have missed the critical growth period where language and social skills and the like are developed in the essentials, theyre brains are actually physically smaller
2007-03-26 14:41:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i don't think the brain itself would be smaller. the knowledge the brain holds would be a different matter. the twin that was locked up wouldn't have the knowledge that the other twin has. i don't know if that would affect the actual size of the brain though.
2007-03-26 14:38:40 · answer #2 · answered by romanasananto 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably not physically smaller. But if you were to run an fMRI there would be massive differences in the brain activity between them.
2007-03-26 14:38:53 · answer #3 · answered by Shark Gumbo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depended if they either did drugs or smoked, the size of the brains at birth- which was smaller, and if they had been both eating ok.
not enough information to just decide like that
2007-03-26 14:37:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that is a viable experiment. Why would you want to do that in that way?
2007-03-26 14:38:18 · answer #5 · answered by Lis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋