Question...

[RWNJ]

No more guesses? Did you give up?

 

[Hossfly]

No more guesses? Did you give up?

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

No more guesses? Did you give up?

^^^^ If you want a rating from me then you have to agree I am correct, I only give ratings to people who agree with me and say I am correct and am awesome, divine etc

 

[sealybobo]

Without using Google, can anyone tell me what uses more brain power that any other activity?

Sex

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

No more guesses? Did you give up?

^^^^ Mr. Hoss has used 80% of his brain energy trying to figure WTF the answer to RWNJ's OP is, so RWNJ for Gods sake just tell Mr. Hoss already

 

[sealybobo]

No more guesses? Did you give up?

Praying

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Without using Google, can anyone tell me what uses more brain power that any other activity?

Sex

^^^^ I am an innocent girl with a virgin mind, I never think about that, oh wait....hold on I forgot

 

[RWNJ]

OK. I'll have pity on you and answer the question. It's playing the piano.

 

[Kat]

Thinking.

 

[Kat]

OK. I'll have pity on you and answer the question. It's playing the piano.

Nuh uhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

 

[Hossfly]

OK. I'll have pity on you and answer the question. It's playing the piano.

 

[RWNJ]

OK. I'll have pity on you and answer the question. It's playing the piano.

Nuh uhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

Yep. It's the truth. Believe it.

 

[Kat]

OK. I'll have pity on you and answer the question. It's playing the piano.

Nuh uhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

Yep. It's the truth. Believe it.

Gosh! I use my brain more than many! Seems to me I use my fingers to play though.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

OK. I'll have pity on you and answer the question. It's playing the piano.

That is totally ridiculous, but I am happy you said something Mr. Hoss was at 80% brain energy on this and I was about to get a migraine

 

[hjmick]

OK. I'll have pity on you and answer the question. It's playing the piano.

Actually, I believe playing music in general would be the more accurate answer.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

OK. I'll have pity on you and answer the question. It's playing the piano.

Nuh uhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

Yep. It's the truth. Believe it.

Gosh! I use my brain more than many! Seems to me I use my fingers to play though.

^^^^ My favourite is the Prepared Piano, but I'm European and decadent so

Prepared piano - Wikipedia

 

[RWNJ]

OK. I'll have pity on you and answer the question. It's playing the piano.

That is totally ridiculous, but I am happy you said something Mr. Hoss was at 80% brain energy on this and I was about to get a migraine

When scientists look at brains using FMRIs and PET scans while subjects are doing normal things, the parts of the noggin associated with those things light up as expected.

Playing an instrument involves doing lots of things at once.

It's like a full-body workout for the brain.

Different areas of the brain get into the act.

When you play music, you use fine motor skills controlled by the creative and analytic hemispheres of your brain. There's language involved, and math, too. Plus, feeling, memory, and a lot of everything else your brain can do.

In fact, playing music strengthens the *corpus callosum*, the link between the two halves. Scientists are seeing all kinds of new connections being made as people play music.

This makes musicians great problem-solvers in school and social situations.
Musicians develop higher executive functions.
Musicians get mad skills at interlinked tasks like planning, strategizing, and paying attention to detail because they benefit from learning to quickly handle both cognitive and emotional elements at the same time.

Musicians' memories are also unique.
When musicians process memories, they tend to use an unusual tagging system that lets them file memories in multiple categories.

 

[leftwinger]

No more guesses? Did you give up?

Driving a car in stop & go rush hour traffic?

 

[Hossfly]

I googled Scientific American. I can see how piano playing uses up brain power.


It is well established that the brain uses more energy than any other human organ, accounting for up to 20 percent of the body's total haul. Until now, most scientists believed that it used the bulk of that energy to fuel electrical impulses that neurons employ to communicate with one another. Turns out, though, that is only part of the story.

A new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA indicates that two thirds of the brain's energy budget is used to help neurons or nerve cells "fire'' or send signals. The remaining third, however, is used for what study co-author Wei Chen, a radiologist at the University of Minnesota Medical School, refers to as "housekeeping," or cell-health maintenance.


Why Does the Brain Need So Much Power?

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

OK. I'll have pity on you and answer the question. It's playing the piano.

That is totally ridiculous, but I am happy you said something Mr. Hoss was at 80% brain energy on this and I was about to get a migraine

When scientists look at brains using FMRIs and PET scans while subjects are doing normal things, the parts of the noggin associated with those things light up as expected.

Playing an instrument involves doing lots of things at once.

It's like a full-body workout for the brain.

Different areas of the brain get into the act.

When you play music, you use fine motor skills controlled by the creative and analytic hemispheres of your brain. There's language involved, and math, too. Plus, feeling, memory, and a lot of everything else your brain can do.

In fact, playing music strengthens the *corpus callosum*, the link between the two halves. Scientists are seeing all kinds of new connections being made as people play music.

This makes musicians great problem-solvers in school and social situations.
Musicians develop higher executive functions.
Musicians get mad skills at interlinked tasks like planning, strategizing, and paying attention to detail because they benefit from learning to quickly handle both cognitive and emotional elements at the same time.

Musicians' memories are also unique.
When musicians process memories, they tend to use an unusual tagging system that lets them file memories in multiple categories.

"noggin"

What is this word?