By learning a new and complex task such as to learn juggling could help the brain development. Jan Scholz and his colleagues at the University of Oxford have discovered that juggling changes white matter. White matter describes all areas of the brain that contain mostly of axons – outgrowths of nerve cells that connect different cells.
For six weeks 24 young men and women received a training packs for juggling and had them practice for half an hour a day. Their brain were scanned along with 24 other who did not do any juggling.
They found no change in the non-jugglers, but the jugglers had grown more white matter in their brain.
According to Arne May of the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany: “It suggests that learning a skill is more important than exercising what you are good at already – the brain wants to be puzzled and learn something new.”
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17957-learning-to-juggle-grows-brain-networks-for-good.html
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