This title is a little click-baity, but I think one of the nice takeaways from the article was the connectivity in the frontal cortex. I've been researching ho

This title is a little click-baity, but I think one of the nice takeaways from the article was the connectivity in the frontal cortex. I've been researching how to improve CS education this past semester, and its taken me down a long road of cog. psych. Much of this information is "true", but shouldn't be read as "Runners and musicians are 'smarter'". Firstly, what's it mean to be 'smart'? As expertise grows, that knowledge needs to be stored somewhere. In my studies, this led to Cambridge's Handbook Of Expertise [1], in which there is a chapter focusing on perceptual-motor expertise. In violinists, the neural plasticity of the cerebellum expanded similarly to the cerebellum's in chess players. As my link and this article sort of point out, mental and physical expertise cause the brain to expand. There is some discussion about the brain being an "arena" for limited neural tissue; however, I am by no means an expert of the brain. My interpretation of this information is that the same practices done in runners/musicians can be applied to other mental practices - ala CS. You get better at running by running; you get better at playing a violin by practicing your scales; what are the elements of CS that can be reduced to these solitary practices as a means to get better at them? [1] https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511816796 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511816796