Not just mirror box info, but really fascinating video from Nova with Dr. Ramachandran.
The other parts are available on YouTube (Part 2, Part 3), Netflix has the DVD for rent, and the DVD is for sale at amazon.com
Category Archives: The Nine Essentials
Education Week: Scientists Find Learning Is Not ‘Hard-Wired’
“…people really do change their brain functions in response to experience,” said Kurt W. Fischer, the director of Harvard University’s Mind, Brain, and Education Program. “It’s just amazing how flexible the brain is. That plasticity has been a huge surprise to a whole lot of people.”
via Education Week: Scientists Find Learning Is Not ‘Hard-Wired’.
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Feldenkrais Week Event
Feldenkrais Week Event in Santa Rosa
This Sunday May 6th, 2012 from 10-4:30 at New School Aikido Santa Rosa.
Feldenkrais Week is an opportunity to celebrate the genius who developed a way to access and change brain patterns using movement that are only recently starting to be validated by science. It’s an excuse for those of use practicing the work he started to share our joy of movement with the public and give people a chance to see how powerful it is.
While my teacher, Anat Baniel, studied with Dr. Feldenkrais, I’m studied with her, and I’m trained in the Anat Baniel Method. Which at least to my way of thinking, is part of the Feldenkrais linage. I’m grateful to all my teachers and look forward to celebrating the life and work of Moshe Feldenkrais by teaching a movement lesson this Sunday. If you’d like to join me, class starts at 2:30. Click here for details.
A Gripping Tale – Each Flick of a Finger Takes the Work of Five – NYTimes.com
…Not only are the ring and pinky fingers physically tethered together by a shared tendon, as anatomists long have known; measurements of neuromuscular activation patterns have shown that all fingers, including the ones with the greatest structural autonomy, the thumb and index finger, are keenly responsive to every flex and twitch of their neighboring digits.
“Even when you think you’re moving just one finger,” said Marc H. Schieber, a professor of neurology and neurobiology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, “you’re really controlling your entire hand.”…
A Gripping Tale – Each Flick of a Finger Takes the Work of Five – NYTimes.com.