2017年5月的《国家地理》（National Geographic）刊登了有关天才主题的系列文章。该问题包含许多与天才有关的有趣的大脑发现，包括阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦的发现。但是，它在有关该主题的神经科学研究中遗漏了一个重要的新方向。

为了更好地理解像爱因斯坦这样的天才的全新思想背后的过程，现在有大脑的大脑想象证据，可以为大脑如何产生的方式提供巨大的变化思想和创造力的进步.

这种重大思维的重大变化是基于无数的成像研究，该研究揭示了大脑小脑的690亿神经元如何不仅有助于思想的不断完善，而且对创造力有所贡献。

大脑如何产生天才的新观点

It is now recognized by a growing number of neuroscientists that, in conjunction with the cerebral cortex, the smaller cerebellum is necessary to the computation of higher levels of thought.

小脑通过不断提高所有运动，思想和创作过程的速度，适当性和效率来提供这种绝对关键的贡献。小脑通过一个人进行解决所有问题的每次尝试，进行了这些改进。

To help understand the powerful relationship between the cerebellum and the cerebral cortex it is first important to note that the human cerebellum has increased three- to four-fold in size in just the last million years. Further, this rather rapid and dramatic increase in the size of the cerebellum has included:

1. The emergence of large cognitive areas in the cerebellum that are dedicated to the constant improvement of language-driven thought, and
2. 小脑以及大脑皮层额叶和顶叶高级思想和规划区域之间的大量双向神经轨迹（大脑每一侧的2000万）扩展。后一种发展意味着，通过更高效，更简化的建模，小脑中690亿个成功预测性的神经元电路会不断改善任何重复思考的事物。

It is important to note here that the contributions of the cerebellum occur below the level of conscious awareness. These increased efficiencies of thought are then sent back to the cerebral cortex to unconsciously influence advanced thought (often popping up in the form of what we experience as intuition) and/or implementation in advanced problem solving.

How the cerebro-cerebellar system produces advances in thought

从婴儿期开始，在大脑皮层中正在成为工作记忆的事物发生了“思想”的经验。工作记忆是指构成持续思想的图片和语言流。同时，随着早期思想的这种经验重复，小脑编码这种发展思想的结构的有序序列。并且，为了使用这些序列预测小脑接下来的情况，可以融合序列以做出更好的预测。

The evolutionary adaptive advantage of this cerebellar encoding is that it progressively selects thought patterns that are faster, more consistent, and more appropriate to the problem at hand. As these patterns are learned in the cerebellum, they may be blended and become more unconscious and automatic, often suddenly entering consciousness in the cerebral cortex as intuition.

In my 2015文章出现在日记中Cerebellum & Ataxias，我描述了在阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦（Albert Einstein）的情况下，这个过程可能如何起作用。就爱因斯坦而言，他告诉我们，他在16岁时想象了以下矛盾的问题：

“如果我在速度C（真空中的光速度）中追求一束光束，我应该在静止时观察到像空间振荡电磁场这样的光束。但是，似乎没有这样的事情。”

爱因斯坦在这里想象的是，当它不以每秒18.6千英里的速度移动时，光束的光束应该是什么样子。

Einstein’s cerebral cortex (in conjunction with what his cerebellum has also learned over the years) had imagined a possible blending of the speed of light itself with everyday experience. Then, in the ensuing years of Einstein’s pondering of this question, his cerebellum worked to make this idea of a new blend of observations and ideas more appropriate and more predictive toward solving the problem of what a beam of light at rest would actually look like.

Einstein said he solved this problem through intuition and came up with his special theory of relativity. To see how his intuition solved it, please see the explanation near the end of my2015年文章.

Why do some people become geniuses?

The foregoing explanation of the early emergence of thought in the infant leads directly to an explanation of why some people become geniuses. Some individuals naturally have accelerated cerebellar functions toward improvement of cognitive processes. Due to learning conditions, mentor support and hard work (and a degree of luck) some of these individuals become well-known geniuses (like Einstein).

Another class of such individuals due to intrinsic motivation, their unique learning conditions and so forth, may become child prodigies. Further, asVandervert（2007）争辩说，通过高度积极进取的实践，其他人可能会通过长期，敬业的努力和导师的支持大大加快其小脑功能的生产。

Placing the newer research within the context of National Geographic’s article on genius

我直接将这些新的理解直接置于Claudia Kalb 2017年5月的“ Genius”中出现在《国家地理》中的示例中。有关详细信息，请给我发送电子邮件至lvandervert@aol.com。

另外，请了解为什么科学实际上是播放的延伸：meets-neuroscience-cerebellum-and-rise-culture-through-play>” as published in Volume 9, Issue 2, of The Strong’s American Journal of Play.