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There are individuals who are more adept with their toes than most people are with their hands, using their feet to paint, draw, write, play music, and so on. I
by robbedpeter 5y ago
There are individuals who are more adept with their toes than most people are with their hands, using their feet to paint, draw, write, play music, and so on. It's a repeated phenomenon, demonstrating neural plasticity in a great way.
Such abilities are latent in all of us, differences in brain function that paralyze or confuse any part of the body are very rare.
You, too, can pull off an arched eyebrow like The Rock, do ear wiggles, crazy eye rolls, and more. Getting good at it seems to be a matter of methodical practice.
- gambiting 5y ago>> Getting good at it seems to be a matter of methodical practice. Yes, but I can practice moving my eyebrows to achieve mastery, because I know how to move them at least a little bit. With my ears, I literally cannot - no matter how hard I think about it or how much I strain, they just won't move. So how can you practice something that you cannot do at all? Just "try harder"? I feel like that's like telling someone with no legs to practice walking.
- robbedpeter 5y agoMaybe tiny shocks like with a tens system, or a pinch, used to jolt your nerves into recognizing the location? I had a lot of trouble with my eyebrow arching, but eventually got it by poking it with a straw or pushing it around with my finger. Or maybe there's a genetic component, like tongue rolling. The nerves and muscles are there, no sensation seems to be lost, they're just arranged a bit different. Kinda cool how something trivial can go into these weird rabbit holes, anyway.