Photo Post #5: Sounds Good, Feels Good

In Père Lachaise Cimetière lays the body of the great Frédéric Chopin, a famous composer and pianist. He primarily wrote solo piano pieces so you could imagine how much repetitive finger movements he made. In NBB 301, we learned about the effects of repetitive motion on the cortical representation of afferent neurons. You could imagine that the part of Chopin’s motor cortex that corresponds to his fingers were much larger than that of the average person. Well, maybe since we type on computers regularly the average motor cortex would look more like Chopin’s than in it would have 25 years ago?

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