Michael

/ The Roof / • • Obrigado, São Paolo! • • Tonight was an absolute dream with the most amazing crowd ever. Grateful doesn't even come close to describing how the show has left me feeling. MC, you're the best 🐐 Forever thankful and grateful for you 🙏🏽💙 thank you.

The research behind this is wild. If you played Pokémon as a kid, you have a tiny region in your brain that exists only because of Pokémon. Not a metaphor. Stanford put people in brain scanners and found it. The study was published in Nature Human Behavior in 2019. They scanned 11 adults who grew up glued to their Game Boys and 11 who never played. When they showed both groups images of the original 151, the players' brains lit up in one specific spot every time. Same spot across all 11 people. The non-players showed zero response. That spot is a little fold in the back of your brain that normally processes things like animal shapes and cartoon faces. In the Pokémon players, a chunk of it had been permanently reassigned. Their brains carved out a Pokémon department sometime around age 6 or 7 and just never took it down. And the reason it ended up in the same place in everyone's brain comes down to the Game Boy itself. The screen was 2.6 inches. Every kid held it at roughly the same distance. So those 151 characters hit the exact same patch of each kid's retina, thousands of times, during the years when the brain is still soft enough to reorganize itself. Where an image hits your retina in childhood is what tells your brain where to build the wiring. Reading works the same way. Humans invented writing about 5,000 years ago. There's zero evolutionary reason for a brain region dedicated to recognizing words. But every person who learns to read grows one, roughly the size of a dime, in the same part of the brain. Brain-imaging research from 2018 actually watched it appear in children's heads as they learned their letters. It grew by quietly taking over nearby tissue that wasn't doing much yet. Stanford published a follow-up this year showing this region is way smaller or missing entirely in kids with dyslexia, and that 8 weeks of intense reading practice physically grew it back. London taxi drivers show the same thing in a completely different part of the brain. Brain scans from a 2000 study found the region that stores mental maps had physically expanded, and the longer they'd been driving, the bigger it got. These drivers spend 3 to 4 years memorizing 25,000 streets before they get licensed. About half wash out. The common thread is childhood. Harvard researchers trained young monkeys to recognize new shapes and they developed brand-new brain regions in predictable locations. Adult monkeys trained on the same shapes never got those structural changes. The young brain wires itself in a way the adult brain cannot replicate. If you're wondering whether a Pokémon patch in your brain means you lost something else, no. The region sits alongside your normal visual processing areas, not on top of them. Your brain has hundreds of millions of neurons in that zone alone. The lead author noted that every participant in the study had gone on to earn a PhD.

Serebii Update: Pokémon XD Gale of Darkness will be available on Nintendo Classics on Nintendo Switch 2 In March serebii.net

Sorry to disturb your scrolling, we don't know each other, but I wish you all the best in life and may things work out in your favor this year

The pokerogue flashbacks are hitting me.

First VMAs tonight, cant wait! Tune in to see a familiar face 😉

Lambs! Here’s a link in case you want to watch the #VMAs live tomorrow: freeintertv.com/view/id-2984/1…

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Manifesting ‼️

As you grow older,...

@IAmCHAP24 @NBA @Raptors bring him back

Good morning @NBA , I was wondering if any teams had a training camp spot for an kind chap like myself . I’m like a SUV got a lot of travel miles but for the long haul(long season) you can count on me. I also keep good air flow amongst the team. I also can guard just about anyone

@ScooterInSA Thank you my friend!

@_MichaelTrey Have the best time!!!

Toronto, thank you for the amazing homecoming shows 💙 heart is so full.

@_mroan Thank you my friend!

@_MichaelTrey Break a leg!!!

Legends are made from nights like this. I make history tonight.

@FlyLadyDi Thank youu 😁🙏🏽

@_MichaelTrey Proud of you

@mariahsreverie @MeIAmMiiiichele Hiiiiiiii

@_MichaelTrey @MeIAmMiiiichele oh it’s youuu. hey king !!!!

think i just saw one of mariah’s back up dancer at blackpink’s deadline tour…

@MeIAmMiiiichele Thank you so much!!! 🙏🏽😁

@_MichaelTrey Congrats to the first Canadian to do it!! Do your big thing tonight, my friend! 🫡