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I dont understand how this article can claim that our brains are malleable, but then go on to claim that our children's brain will be wired differently to ours.

• goodcanadian 12y ago
  Young brains are extremely malleable. Our brains grow (and we learn fastest) during infancy and toddler-hood with a second, less impressive, burst during adolescence. So, our children's brains are malleable in the sense that they readily adjust to this new reality while their brains are growing fastest, but since the reality during their most formative years is different from the reality during our formative years, their brains will be wired differently. One could argue that this happens to a certain extent with every generation, however, and it is not necessarily a new thing. One might also argue that as technology changes faster, the inter-generational gap grows larger. One might also argue that while our adult brains change more slowly than a toddler brain, they do keep changing which might mean the difference is not so large after all. Interesting questions to be sure.