This type of problem solving is neurologically distinct from analytic or strategic problem solving.

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For years, neuroscientists believed that from a young age, our brains became inflexible and neurologically set in their ways.

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In practicing a skill in the initial stages, something happens neurologically to the brain that is important for you to understand.

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One of the medical team treating her said "neurologically she has significantly improved" but that the "coming days... are very critical".

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Neurologically, scientists are still working to understand boredom's effects on the brain, but they theorize that the state involves a failure in the neural networks that control attention.

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Indeed, Dr Moffitt has already used the New Zealand group to show how a violent family upbringing and different versions of another neurologically important gene interact to produce more and less violent people.

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Using the latest brain imaging technologies, researchers have been able to prove that we human beings are neurologically wired to over-estimate the size of risks, under-estimate our ability to handle them, and downplay the costs of inaction.

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That might sound drastic, but in 5-year-olds, whose brains are still actively growing, the remaining part of the brain can reorganize itself to control some functions that the missing half would have governed, although the child will probably not be completely neurologically normal, Gupta said.

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