Mind/Brain and Entrainment

by Tim Brunson, PhD
Cognitive neuroscientists continue to seek further relationships between neural structures and behavior (Raz et al. 2006). The previous chapter discusses that neuroplasticity explains how the brain can reorganize. This occurs normally when dormant (or less used) parts of the brain take over a function of another part of the brain due to events such as a stroke. Scientists involved in researching the savant syndrome recognize that prodigious savants somehow tap these hidden reserves of the mind (Treffert, 1989; Walsh & Pascual-Leone, 2003; Evans, 2007). So it is reasonable to deduce that a brain can easily entrain since it has this dormant or hidden potential readily available.