Chantel: I tried to keep my foot rotating clockwise and it just instantly flips in the reverse direction. Chantel: What's happening is that the motor program, the hand, there's a lot more real estate in the hand area of the brain than the leg area of thebrain. But when you send a motor program to control the part of the brain that moves your hand, it's actually leaking on gossiping in to your foot area. So it's overriding the first program and kind of bleeding in. That's why, you know, this sort of flexibility that says, I just let you, I just instructed you to do something you've probably never done in your
There's no such thing as a "normal" brain. And according to Dr. Chantel Prat, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington, that's a very good thing indeed. In her new book, "The Neuroscience of You," Chantel tells readers how their brains got to be the way they are, and today on the show, she explains how to get the most out of the brain you've got.
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