Mastering a new skill – whether a sport, an instrument, or a craft – causes new neural activity patterns to emerge in the brain, a study has found. AdvertisingWhile it is understood that a healthy brain is capable of learning these new skills, how the brain changes in order to develop new behaviours is a relative mystery. AdvertisingThe research, published in the journal PNAS, showed that new neural activity patterns emerge with long-term learning and established a causal link between these patterns and new behavioral abilities. “This is striking because by construction, we knew from the outset that they did not have the neural activity patterns required to perform this skill,” Batista said. These findings suggest that the process for humans to master a new skill might also involve the generation of new neural activity patterns.

Source: Indian Express June 12, 2019 07:41 UTC