Brain Change by Juggling
PLoS ONE reports that more evidence of brain plasticity has been found by researchers in Germany:
After three months of training, learning three-ball cascade juggling, the researchers observed a transient and highly selective increase in brain gray matter in the “occipito-temporal cortex” — the brain’s motion sensitive area (hMT/V5 bilaterally).
Studying 20 healthy adult volunteers researchers from Hamburg and Jana showed that learning to juggle can alter gray matter as early as after 7 days of training. Neither performance nor exercise alone could explain these changes.
Changes in Gray Matter Induced by Learning—Revisited
1 Department of Systems Neuroscience, University of Hamburg (UKE), Hamburg, Germany2 Department of Psychiatry, University of Jena, Jena, Germany
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