StumbleUpon | CiaranFromChance's blog posts http://CiaranFromChance.stumbleupon.com/ CiaranFromChance's recent blog posts on StumbleUpon en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:57:48 -0800 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:31:06 -0700 StumbleUpon | CiaranFromChance's blog posts http://CiaranFromChance.stumbleupon.com/ http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/logo_su_36x36.png Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:23:40 -0800 <![CDATA[http://CiaranFromChance.stumbleupon.com/review/18388615/]]> http://CiaranFromChance.stumbleupon.com/review/18388615/ http://CiaranFromChance.stumbleupon.com/review/18388615/ I found the following paragraph (kind of randomly), after combing through an article that came through from another SU reader. Interesting how the brain works...



"In its short history, the science of neuroplasticity has mostly documented brain changes that reflect physical experience and input from the outside world. In pianists who play many arpeggios, for instance, brain regions that control the index finger and middle finger become fused, apparently because when one finger hits a key in one of these fast-tempo movements, the other does so almost simultaneously, fooling the brain into thinking the two fingers are one. As a result of the fused brain regions, the pianist can no longer move those fingers independently of one another."

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