SciShow Psych: Why Is Riding a Bike "Just Like Riding a Bike?"

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Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: Even if it's in a while not riding a bike, you could probably ride it again without going through the training wheel phase. It’s because our brains do some fascinating works to store those memories. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/motor-learning https://psychologydictionary.org/motor-memory/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3772079/ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/09/24/the-abyss https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/implicit-memory https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01805.x%3FjournalCode=pssa https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3548359/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/implicit-memory https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2649674/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3837701/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3833908/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5656290/ https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/amnesia-patient-kc-was-kent-cochrane-the-hippocampus-makes-memories-personal.html https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/313265.php https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198523246.001.0001/acprof-9780198523246-chapter-9 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364661398012236 https://opentextbc.ca/anatomyandphysiology/chapter/12-4-the-action-potential/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3217208/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2553888/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305381230_Neuroplasticity_changes_in_grey_matter_induced_by_training https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12372032 https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/intraparietal-sulcus https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364661398012236 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1868674/ Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/hippocampus-vector-illustration-labeled-diagram-with-isolated-closeup-gm1053259742-281397203 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Posterior_lobe_of_cerebellum_--_animation.gif https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/carefree-african-american-father-and-daughter-cycling-in-the-park-gm638734606-114711623 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/playing-piano-gm174864881-22962826 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purkinje_cell#/media/File:Cerebellum_silver_stain.jpg https://www.videoblocks.com/video/two-men-juggling-on-a-sandy-beach-at-sunset-kxcer5l https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intraparietal_sulcus#/media/File:Gray726_intraparietal_sulcus.svg https://istockphoto.com/vector/human-brain-vector-icon-illustration-gm1131694642-299741868 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/old-bicycle-covered-with-spiderweb-gm946566224-258486671 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/handsome-senior-man-riding-bike-on-seafront-slow-motion-rlpswoxvzj5zjdxxh https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/asian-mother-and-daughter-cyclist-in-the-park-gm860156158-142226645


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