A little practice can change the brain in a lasting way, study finds
Monday, June 27, 2011 - 14:30
in Psychology & Sociology
A little practice goes a long way, according to researchers who have found the effects of practice on the brain have remarkable staying power. The study found that when participants were shown visual patterns--faces, which are highly familiar objects, and abstract patterns, which are much less frequently encountered -- they were able to retain very specific information about those patterns one to two years later.