When rappers freestyle, they use a
unique neural network that allows them to improvise verbally in real
time. It is unlike other states in that it increases activity in the
parts in charge of motivation and action of thought, but decreases
the regions in charge of filtering and supervising, so what is left
is a person literally flowing thought from their heads.
When reading this, I immediately
connected it to football. Perhaps some individuals are more
naturally predisposed to facilitate improvised actions than others.
Maybe when Ben Roethlisberger makes broken plays look golden it's
because his brain is hardwired to perform those moments better than
say, Andy Dalton's brain. What if the ability to improvise is
genetic and cannot truly be taught?
This also makes me wonder if Big Ben
can rap.
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