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''' STRANGE BRAIN STUDENTS '''
'' QUESTIONING WHERE THESE HEROES CAME FROM.'' : Great humanists, great students, great leaders, great believers, great associates, great parents, great teachers, great professors use their minds more efficiently than the regulars.
Imagine two athletes - a soccer player and a Formula 1 driver. While the soccer player may be blisteringly fast on the field, she still moves at a humanlike speed.
She may be quicker than anyone and be able to pivot with incredible dexterity, but it's always at a pace that the human brain can follow.
NOW think of the race car driver, going about 220 miles per hour on the straights and 180 on the corners.
No land animal, living or dead have ever run even half that quickly. It's simply too fast for any mortal's brain to keep up with. So, how do they do it? How does a human mind navigate a sport that's faster than it can follow?
'' There is a limit, like a psychological limit,'' said Otto Lappi, a senior university lecturer at the University of Helsinki in Finland. '' But there is less limit to how much cleverness your brain can build in - to know the environment and figure out right now what I need to do not to kill myself.''
Scientists have long studied elite athletes as a way to understand the inner workings of the human brain. But Formula 1 drivers offer them a unique window : how the brain adapts to impossible speeds.
The first thing to know is that while reflexes are important, they are not what distinguishes a truly elite driver.
'' This is something that people don't realize when they think of racing drivers living off their reflexes,'' said Dr. Lappi, who studies eye movements of various types of athletes.
'' Most of their skill is anticipation. The anticipation is how the brain buys itself time.''
In other words, a great driver doesn't react to the road, he predicts it. In many ways, this isn't surprising because the entire brain is often said to be an ''elaborate prediction machine''. But in Formula 1 drivers, this looks a little different.
There have been many studies of how regular people's brains adapt to driving, but only a few have actually used elite drivers, because it is hard getting international celebrities to visit a neuroscience lab.
In two small, yet remarkable studies from 2014 and 2013, an Italian team compared 11 professional [ including Formula 1 ] drivers with 11 normal ones.
As one might expect, they found that elite drivers had good reaction and visuospatial skills. But the most interesting difference was in an area buried deep in the back of the brain called the retrosplenial cortex, which acts as a hub connecting spatial reasoning and crucially - memory.
Whereas other parts of the brain might allow you to navigate unfamiliar places, this is the part of the brain that connects where you are now to where you have been before [ and was heavily used by London taxi drivers in a 2006 study ].
A student/person with a damaged retrosplenial cortex, say, from Alzheimer's disease, might recognize their home, the corner store and a nearby school, but would have no idea how to use one to find another.
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