Juggling boosts the brain | Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Access through your institution Buy or subscribe When people spend three months learning to juggle, according to a paper published in _Nature_, parts of their brains grow. “Researchers in

Germany split 24 students into two groups, one of which was given three months to learn a classic three-ball cascade juggling routine. Brain scans were then carried out on both sets of

volunteers.” (_The Scotsman_, 22 January 2004). The brains of the jugglers and non-jugglers were scanned before and after the three-month learning period. According to _BBC News Online_ (22

January 2004), “Jugglers had more grey matter — which consists largely of the nerve cells — in the mid-temporal area and the left posterior intraparietal sulcus, which both process visual

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