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January 15, 2013 01:07 pm PST

A More Resilient Species

A playful brain is a more adaptive brain, writes ethologist Sergio Pellis in The Playful Brain: Venturing to the Limits of Neuroscience. In his studies, he found that play-deprived rats fared worse in stressful situations. In our own world filled with challenges ranging from cyber-warfare to infrastructure failure, could self-directed play be the best way [...]


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