쉐도잉 연습: The Neuroscience of Creativity - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

This little guy is a nematode worm - it’s transparent, about 1mm in length and one of the simplest animals with a nervous system.

And his name is Steve.

Steve does something quite curious... he doesn’t just follow food scents.

He also explores his environment – thoroughly.

As if he wants to know what else is out there.

This worm shows a basic form of curiosity.

And Steve does this even though he only has 383 brain cells or neurons… compared to the 86 billion neurons in your human brain.

Your brain is also curious, it’s constantly looking for the next new thing.

But unlike a worm, our desire for novelty has led us to innovate and create.

Our high levels of creativity are thanks to the unique makeup of our restless brains.

So what exactly makes your brain so creative?

Well, this mass of 86 billion neurons is organised in a pretty special way.

Roughly speaking, one group of neurons sense the environment, and another group react to it.

In most animal brains, there’s a hard-wired path from the sensing neurons to acting neurons.

In your human brain though, there are lots of paths connecting the two.

Way more than what we need to perform vital tasks.

So these surplus neurons form tangled networks that generate random, spontaneous thoughts.

And researchers are starting to pinpoint how these random thoughts become creative ideas.

In a 2016 study, researchers found that creativity seems to depend on the cooperation of two competing brain networks: one that generates spontaneous thoughts and the executive control center of the brain that governs everything else.

To produce new ideas, we start with a pool of random, free-flowing thoughts – those worthy of further exploration are then approved by executive control.

And then, when researchers asked people to plan an artwork, cooperation between these two networks went up.

And the effect was stronger in professional artists.

Virtually all other research points to a similar conclusion: That no one area of your brain is responsible for creative thought.

Rather, many interacting processes by large-scale brain networks work together to give birth to a great idea.

And a new theory suggests these brain networks seem to be doing three things: They bend what we see, break what we expect and finally, they blend things with...other things.

Your restless brain is full of great ideas – just waiting to be realised.

This is the first of a three part series on creativity.

Next up, can you become more creative?

If we all have this amazing machinery in our brains, why are some people more creative than others?

쉐도잉이란? 영어 실력을 빠르게 키우는 과학적 방법

쉐도잉(Shadowing)은 원래 전문 통역사 훈련을 위해 개발된 언어 학습 기법으로, 다언어 학자인 Dr. Alexander Arguelles에 의해 대중화된 방법입니다. 핵심 원리는 간단하지만 매우 강력합니다: 원어민의 영어를 들으면서 1~2초의 짧은 지연으로 즉시 소리 내어 따라 말하는 것——마치 '그림자(shadow)'처럼 화자를 따라가는 것입니다. 문법 공부나 수동적인 청취와 달리, 쉐도잉은 뇌와 입 근육이 동시에 실시간으로 영어를 처리하고 재현하도록 훈련합니다. 연구에 따르면 이 방법은 발음 정확도, 억양, 리듬, 연음, 청취력, 말하기 유창성을 크게 향상시킵니다. IELTS 스피킹 준비와 자연스러운 영어 소통을 원하는 분들에게 특히 효과적입니다.

쉐도잉 연습: The Neuroscience of Creativity - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

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