[ExI] neuroscience questions

[William Flynn Wallace]

Henry, a study was done at a big music school awhile back, and the only
thing they found that correlated with performance skills was practice - no
'talent' showed up in the data.  However, none of those students was or was
going to be a world class performer and I wonder if there is some
difference there between those students and the world class people.  After
all, we do know that some people are incredibly fast learners (but we also
know that many prodigies don't turn out to be world class).
 bill w

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 2:53 PM Henry Rivera via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Research shows that being an elite performer and or athlete requires much
> more practice than not the non-elite  assume. Much, much more practice.
> Muscle memory becomes reinforced, focus and concentration need tuning,
> automaticity starts to happen. The non-elite tend to assume that elites
> have some innate talent that requires no practice or development. But
> in-fact work put in seems to be a better predictor of their success.
> Similarly, the most successful artists historically have a correlation with
> the amount of works they created.
>
> On Aug 26, 2020, at 3:29 PM, Dave Sill via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> 
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 3:05 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know why it is that pro athletes and, just for another
>> example, classically trained musicians need to practice so much?
>>
>> My violinist friend said:  "If I don't practice today, I know it.  If I
>> don't practice tomorrow, you'll know it.  If I don't practice the next day,
>> everyone will know it."
>>
>> Could it be that rarely practiced skills representing certain brain areas
>> get taken over by new concerns?  I have no clue.
>>
>
> These are very specific and unnatural skills and they need to perform them
> very well or they'll be replaced by someone who can. We know there are
> different levels of memory in the brain and none of them are perfect. Seems
> expected that complex and specific skills need to be constantly refreshed.
>
> -Dave
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