Parts of the Brain Involved in Cascade Juggling. How Juggling Improves Brainpower - Brain Skills (UK) Author: Ian Murnaghan BSc (hons), MSc - Updated: 29 October 2012| Comment When we think of improving brainpower, focused techniques and exercises might come to mind.
Can Juggling Improve Your Brain? It's no longer just a party trick.
Juggling might also enhance your brainpower. A new study published in the journal Nature finds that learning to juggle may cause certain areas of your brain to grow. The finding challenges conventional wisdom the structure of the brain cannot change except through aging and disease. Previous studies have shown learning can result in changes in brain activity. But this latest study demonstrates an anatomical change as a result of learning — that is, the brain size actually expands. Juggle to Improve Your Brain. (NaturalNews) Juggling boosts brain development in surprising ways.
This type of hands-on learning accelerates the growth of nerve connections in the brain's white as well as grey matter. Researchers at the University of Oxford provided juggling training materials to 24 people who agreed to practice half an hour daily for six weeks. Using diffusion tensor imaging, a type of scan that shows the structure of the brain's white matter, these novice jugglers were scanned before and after the training period. The same scans were also performed on a control group of 24 people who did not attempt to learn juggling. Previous studies conducted by the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany, found that juggling increases the brain's grey matter, where nerve cell bodies are contained.