Posts tagged brain
Posts tagged brain
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Experiments using a split treadmill. Among other things, it turned out that people can quickly learn to simultaneously walk forwards and backwards at different speeds with different legs, and that it takes about the same length of time to readjust to normal walking afterwards.
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Listening to their own language, people with dyslexia did worse at recognising different voices. Listening to an unfamiliar language, there was no difference between people with and without dyslexia. The researchers theorise that this is to do with how the brain processes phonemes (the basic units of sound in a language).
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He appears to be better at being Stanley Unwin than Stanley Unwin was! (Also probably an accurate reflection of how much we really know about how the brain really works … )
The brain as explained by John Cleese.