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But it had a section on "ghost" limbs, research showing that people with amputated limbs "feel" them or have "itches" when doing certain things, and the research showed that the brain changes it's sections to adapt to whatever needs to be done or is missing (bear with me, I'm nearly there it'll make sense now I promise) in that when a limb is amputated, that part of the brain is no longer in use. That part is then assigned to something else, like the genitalia (I used that specifically, because according to the study people with missing legs feel them when having sex) or face (face, because it was found that armless people felt itches in their fingers, and when they scratched their noses the itches in their fingers would be scratched).[/b]
Ha, that is pretty interesting. The piece of brain that is 'free' because of the limb that is gone, can it change all the time, or does it takes a certain area of your body and sticks with it?
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I thought that was pretty cool. Anyway the part that interested me the most (I'm not sure how it relates to the topic, but I have said my bit) was that they did a study where they measured the brain frequencies of 2 groups of people, 1 group who practised playing a bit on the piano every day for a like 20 days, and 1 group who thought about practising piano every day for 20 days, and they both showed similar increases in synapses or whatever regarding the use of creativity in the brain and finger movement, even though 1 group never moved their fingers at all.[/b]
Yeah I read about that some while back. I forgot about it... but I guess it still is really interesting. It made me think about when I somethings Think about playing guitar, I really mentally go over each fret. I guess that when I am doing that, I am learning in a way too :)
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I found it interesting because maybe the basic idea here could relate to LDing, where you could practice something in LDs and it has a real affect in waking life, due to the altering adaptations of the brain areas.
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Yeah. Until now the theory was 'your motoric functions are switched off, so you can't learn'. However, I wonder or those people that Thought about playing piano used their motoric-functions-part of their brain.