<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Re high school Spanish - yes, we forget but not permanently. If you were to take it up again, you would find that relearning it would go far faster than learning it in the first place, showing that some memories are still there. (ex - rat study - teach the rat something - cut out a piece of his brain - put him back in maze or whatever - if it took him 20 trials to learn and 20 trials to relearn then no memories are there but you did not affect his ability to learn; only his memory. If 20 trials to learn and 10 to relearn, he is recalling 50%, and so on).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">I have no doubt that my three years of high school Latin are in there somewhere (though I am not going to relearn it - got online translators for that).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Ergo - I am wondering if it is a physical thing, maybe housed in the cerebellum and not a memory thing. I can go back to my musical instruments and remember every finger position etc. but my fingers are like they are encased in glue. Coordination and not memory? Huh?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 2:42 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 12:04 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Does anyone know why it is that pro athletes and, just for another example, classically trained musicians need to practice so much?</div><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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."</div><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Could it be that rarely practiced skills representing certain brain areas get taken over by new concerns? I have no clue.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Basically, yeah. There's muscle memory involved as well, for both athletes and, as you put it, classically trained musicians.</div><div><br></div><div>The same thing explains why, despite taking multiple classes in Spanish back in high school, my current ability to speak and understand Spanish is minimal. </div></div></div>
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