The basal ganglia is a complex sub-cortical structure and it's broken up into different parts. It's involved in what we call, called implicit memory, especially nuclear memory. Basal ganglia will control that. But music sort of, it gets instead of being not part of the brain. You know? Because it's not even the brain, like riding a bike. Once you hit that, the base of ganglia, it's like this sort of,. it automatically just goes, like it, you flow into it.
What makes some people better at focusing? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly learn about the neuroscience behind concentration and performance with neuroscientist Heather Berlin, PhD.
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