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How Does Timing Affect Your Balance?

neuroscientist David Eagleman studies how the brain sends out signals to the whole body. He says it's about 300,000 times slower than signals move around in a computer. And so what happens is the brain puts a lot of effort into making sure that it knows exactly the timing of sending signals out and when it's getting signals back.

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