If I only use 10% of my brain what happens in the other 90% and how much do other mamanls use of their brain?

Answer 1

The other 90% waits for its turn to be the 10% you are using at any moment.
Other mamanls use more of their brains, as evidenced by the fact that they use spell check.

Answer 2

You don't use only 10% of your brain. I don't know where that myth came from - maybe we use only 10% at any given time. (You don't want to be constantly moving all your limbs all the time, for example).

You need the whole brain. This is evidenced by the effects of losing a small part of it through a stroke or gunshot wound. The effects of even a small area of loss can be significant.

There is also the fact that there are inhibitory as well as excititory impulses sent throughout the brain. Some of your brain is being "told" not to fire.

When the neurons of the brain fire at once, we call that a seizure, and it doesn't do you much good.

Think of your neural networks like a system of roads. If all the roads were being used to full capacity all the time, nobody would get anywhere. All of the roads are important, and all get used, but some more so than others. Same with your brain.

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

All parts of the brain are used though not at the same time. That means certain minor functions may use only a small part of the brain at one time but any sufficiently complex set of activities or thought patterns will indeed use many parts of the brain. Just as people don't use all of their muscle groups at one time, they also don't use all of their brain at once. For any given activity, such as eating, watching television, making love, or reading , you may use a few specific parts of your brain. Over the course of a whole day, however, just about all of the brain is used at one time or another.

The belief that a person uses only 10 % of his brain is purely a myth known as "The Ten Percent Myth".

To prove that, what happens if a person gets a brain injury? Even the mildest damage could bring a great impact that would affect the body functions. For example in a case of a gunshot on the person's head; have you ever heard a doctor saying, "Luckily when that bullet entered his skull, it only damaged the few percentage of his brain he didn't use"? What do you think?

Any animal or mammals would have used their brain the same.

Answer 4

The other 90% of your brain is used to control your body's movements and the release of hormones at specific times around the body. If we were able to use the whole 100% of our brains for thought, then no one would be able to move or control their bodies, and they would die.

Answer 5

well, i don't know about mammals, but lizards use more than 10%, because that's how they can grow back their tails. in theory, there are parts of our brain that would enable us to do the same, if we could only access them. a lot of the other 90% is taken up by memory storage and instinctive "instructions", but scientists are still mapping which areas of the brain do what.

Answer 6

all i can say is that i believe the unused 90% of my brain is for burning out by using copius amounts of chemicals such as LSD and PCP..and sometimes cocaine and weed and anything else i can get my hands on, i have been doing this for years and the 10% of my brain that i use is still perfectly fine.....

Answer 7

You use ALL of your brain. It's a common myth that you only use 10%. There would be absolutely no reason for humans to evolve such large brains if we were only going to use 10% of it.

Answer 8

Considering you don't use all of your brain all of the time what 10% are you referring to?

Answer 9

its a scientific myth that humans only use 10% of their brain...people use 100% of their brain...not all the time but we dont have dormant parts.

Answer 10

No idea but i have read that you use 100% of your brain when listening to Bach