--- title: Your amazing brain and senses — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Your amazing brain and senses», a lesson of the myths course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Dramatic music, a glowing brain on screen, a YouTuber whispering: "You only use TEN PERCENT of your brain. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / Your amazing brain and senses # Your amazing brain and senses Lesson 2 of the myths course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/0/) — Dramatic music, a glowing brain on screen, a YouTuber whispering: "You only use TEN PERCENT of your brain. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/1/) — Imagine unlocking the other ninety!" It feels like a secret superpower waiting inside your head. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/2/) — Brain myths are thrilling: a tongue with neat taste zones, people born "right-brained" or "not maths people", Mozart making babies brainy, eyeballs popping out if you sneeze with them open, French learned from tapes under your pillow. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/3/) — The real brain is even more amazing: scans show you use virtually all of it, different parts busy at different moments, and it keeps building new connections all your life, so practice really changes it. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/4/) — Close your eyes and touch your nose: no sight, hearing, smell, taste or touch told you where your hand was, so you have more than five senses. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/6/) — Brain scans show people use virtually all of their brain, though not every part at the same moment; damage to almost any area causes problems. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/7/) — The "ten percent" myth spread through misquoted scientists, self-help books and films such as Lucy. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/8/) — The list of exactly five senses comes from Aristotle over two thousand years ago; scientists now count many more, such as balance, sensing where your limbs are, temperature, pain and hunger. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/9/) — The tongue map with sweet at the tip and bitter at the back came from a 1901 German study that was mistranslated; every taste can be sensed wherever there are taste buds. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/10/) — The two halves of the brain work together for almost everything; nobody is a "left-brained" or "right-brained" type of person. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/11/) — The "Mozart effect" came from a small 1993 study of students that found a short boost on one kind of puzzle; later studies found no lasting cleverness from listening to Mozart. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/12/) — Closing your eyes when you sneeze is a reflex; your eyes would not pop out, because muscles hold them and the sneeze's pressure does not push them out. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/13/) — For most of the 20th century scientists thought adults never grow new brain cells; now we know some new cells form in a few areas, and the brain makes new connections all life long. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/14/) — Practice and good teaching change how well people do in maths; there are no born "non-maths people". - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/15/) — People often dream of falling or dying and wake up fine; a dream cannot hurt your body. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/16/) — You cannot learn new words from tapes while deeply asleep, but sleep does help you keep what you learned while awake. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/17/) — When someone sells a cure for a problem, first check the problem is real. - ← previous: [What really happens to things you swallow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/1-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow/) - next →: [Eyes and ears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/) - ↑ back to [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/)