Thread: How to ride a bicylce. Brain training

Originally Posted by whoever

The video or the action in the video

Both. Something you'd think would be so simple, but isn't. I learned something new about how the adult brain functions. A lot more complex as we get older to learn a "new" way of doing things.

I think its any mammal amphibian brain, the vidio shoes 7 year old trying to do it to you learn one way to be coordinated and its muscle memory.

Originally Posted by Willisf

Both. Something you'd think would be so simple, but isn't. I learned something new about how the adult brain functions. A lot more complex as we get older to learn a "new" way of doing things.

A similar phenomena with a little less intensity was learning to drive on the wrong side of the road in some commonwealth countries. It was not difficult to learn to drive on the left side, but coming home and driving on the right was weird for a day or two.

It's kind of like riding a motorcycle through a curve on the highway. The centrifugal force on the bike requires you to lean into the curve and slightly push the handlebars the opposite direction of the curve. That being said, your mind does this on it's own.

Because it has been trained to do so. It is therefore "biased" to think that it must ALWAYS do this, even when presented with evidence to the contrary (the backwards steering). That is guy's point, right? That it is no easy thing to eliminate our biases/conditioning.

Originally Posted by Mike Blue

A similar phenomena with a little less intensity was learning to drive on the wrong side of the road in some commonwealth countries. It was not difficult to learn to drive on the left side, but coming home and driving on the right was weird for a day or two.

Thanks, after 50 years I had forgotten that.