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I hope the scientists did not take advantage of him and paid him for all the experiments they performed on him. This also shows something that athletes have kn
by hristov 13y ago
I hope the scientists did not take advantage of him and paid him for all the experiments they performed on him.
This also shows something that athletes have known for a long time: there is a "muscle memory" that is quite distinct from our conscious memory and that muscle memory can help us perform tasks with great precision, as long as we practice.
- eridius 13y agoI don't think the surprise was that there exists such a thing as "muscle memory". The surprising fact was that the mechanism of creating and storing muscle memory differs enough from the mechanism of creating and storing normal long-term (or even recent) memory that it ends up in a different part of the brain.