Key Elements of the Gifted Brain

What effect does neural speed have on the gifted brain?

• allows for faster problem solving

• reaction times are faster

• faster reflexes

• emotional responses are faster

What have researchers learned about neural expansiveness and the gifted brain?

• Gifted children have greater arborization.

• One reason the gifted shows enhanced cognitive abilities.

• It causes greater actual and potential between neurons.

• Reserve capacity helps in compensating for
  neuronal injury and neuronal wear and tear.
  

How is the neural efficiency of the brain different in the gifted?

• They are highly fuel efficient.

• Once they quickly have task mastery, they are able to go into low fuel mode again.

• When the task is challenging, greater fuel is used due to more neurons working.

• When the task is challenging, less fuel is used due to more neurons working.

Why is neural flexibility relevant to the educators of the gifted?

• Challenges are needed to help the brain continue to change structurally and functionally.

• Neural flexibility is only seen in the gifted population.

• Flexibility is based in nature, not nurture.

"If we are gifted and neurologically intact,
is a faster, well-connected, efficient, expansive, malleable brain
that is designed to learn and organize information." This allows the gifted to______

• accumulate facts, frameworks, and connotations, etc. at a greater rate.

• have a conceptual framework to organize new information.

• have capability enhanced by experience at the neuron level.