{"id":530399,"date":"2010-04-16T12:57:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2010-04-16T12:57:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:57:01","slug":"the-athletic-brain-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/530399","title":{"rendered":"The Athletic Brain | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/c3\/Jordan_by_Lipofsky_16577.jpg\/225px-Jordan_by_Lipofsky_16577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"301\"\/>In the April issue of <em>Discover<\/em>, I take a look at <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2010\/apr\/16-the-brain-athletes-are-geniuses\/\">the mind of the athlete<\/a>. We may think of sports as a matter of muscle, but the brain is vital as well. And in becoming great athletes, people develop unusual brains. This transformation only makes sense&#8211;any intense training can change the brain, whether it&#8217;s practicing the piano or learning Mandarin. But for some reason, the idea that being a great athlete is, in part, a cerebral exercise still comes as a surprise. In fact, according to this <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/page2\/story?id=4958811\">ESPN take on my column<\/a>, it&#8217;s downright disappointing.<\/p>\n<p><em>[<\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Jordan_by_Lipofsky_16577.jpg\"><em>Image: Wikipedia<\/em><\/a><em>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/j4z4yoI5IZxQJC6YaOGZvgBEeoM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/j4z4yoI5IZxQJC6YaOGZvgBEeoM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/j4z4yoI5IZxQJC6YaOGZvgBEeoM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/j4z4yoI5IZxQJC6YaOGZvgBEeoM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Loom\/~4\/a0CB4X_Zfps\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/7J_Ix9oRUMg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the April issue of Discover, I take a look at the mind of the athlete. We may think of sports as a matter of muscle, but the brain is vital as well. And in becoming great athletes, people develop unusual brains. This transformation only makes sense&#8211;any intense training can change the brain, whether it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}