SciShow Psych: Your Brain's Secret to Freestyling

Teacher or professor: SciShow Psych
Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: Ever wonder how that guitarist nailed that solo or how your favorite rapper can roll out so many lyrics while making it look easy? Beside lots of practice, your brain has a few tricks. 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: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg , Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, 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://psmag.com/environment/the-musician-s-brain-4698 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001679 https://www.bookofjoe.com/2018/11/this-is-your-brain-on-jazz-an-fmri-study-of-jazz-improvisation.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3562704/ https://www.nature.com/news/brain-scans-of-rappers-shed-light-on-creativity-1.11835 https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/07/411366/musical-improvisation-brain http://nautil.us/issue/61/coordinates/what-time-feels-like-when-youre-improvising https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-flow-2794768 DFPLC location: https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-38fdc7bb0971c0922881586d94b14b97.webp lOFC location: https://www.sicotests.com/img/Orbitofrontal.gif (warning for actual brain pics!)


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