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Arthur Toga, neuroscientist and head of the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI) at UCLA, oversaw the new brain animation, and says this research may also explain why learning seems much faster and easier when we're younger. "The brain is particularly plastic in these younger ages, because the circuitry is ready for tailoring," he says. "If you were to do a functional scan of somebody trying to play the piano for the first time, then you scan them repeatedly as they took concentrated lessons over time, you would find the amount of brain that's necessary for that person to perform that piano concerto would become less as they become more proficient. The brain has the remarkable ability to capitalize on efficiency, to tune the appropriate circuitry. It may be that provides the necessary hardware to perform that task. The very same thing may be going on in maturation."
Karen Lurie
http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?language=english&type=&article_id=218392262
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