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Thursday, January 17, 2013

postheadericon DailyDirt: Stop Filling Your Brain With Nonsense

You are what you eat, and your brain reflects what I learned. It should not be too surprising that our brains change depending on what we do with them. There is some interesting science to know why you never forget how to ride a bike, and here are some examples of lessons that our brains seem to keep forever.
  • Being bilingual is considered detrimental to cognitive processes, but further studies are finding evidence that bilingualism may improve some mental skills. Bilingual seem better than monolinguals in control of their environment more deeply, noticing changes monolingual lost. [Url]
Children who learn to play an instrument are detectable differences in how the brain responds to complex sounds (even years after stopping play). Some researchers claim to be able to determine if a person played an instrument just by looking at his / her brain scans. [Url]

karate experts can deliver strikes with a force much greater than expected by simple measurement of muscle strength, and measured differences in brain structure that seems to explain the formative years of the cerebellum using to coordinate muscle movements and deliver stronger blows. Now, let's see some scans of the brain for players who are good at QWOP .... [url]


If you want to read something more interesting and evocative, see this link (but not totally random!) Post Techdirt.
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