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correlation exists and it may drive the effect you observe with<br />

jumping rope.<br />

2. Improved cognition because you are not wasting cognitive capacity<br />

inhibiting movement your body wants to make by default.<br />

Typical people do not naturally sit perfectly still all the time,<br />

much less an ADHD child.<br />

3. Improved cognition because, having recently expended a bunch<br />

of physical energy, your body naturally wants to move less to compensate,<br />

and thus you don't have so much movement to inhibit to<br />

begin with, freeing up cognitive capacity for thinking.<br />

http://www.quora.com/l/boq-nan-waldman<br />

neuroscience<br />

What is the neurological basis of<br />

curiosity?<br />

Bradley Voytek, Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of<br />

California, Berkeley and post-doctoral fellow at UCSF.<br />

Well, gosh. My answer just got all long and philosophical and<br />

talky. This question (or rather, the sub-question) doesn't make<br />

sense, in a neuroscientific sense.<br />

The question itself is of a type that is commonly asked<br />

in cognitive neuroscience: where is in the<br />

brain?<br />

But what does it even mean to ask where "curiosity" is in<br />

the brain? What would an answer look like?<br />

According to one article:<br />

In study after study, scientists have found that the striatum lit<br />

up like an inferno of activity when people didn’t know exactly<br />

what was going to happen next, when they were on the verge of<br />

solving their mystery and hoped to be rewarded — it was more<br />

active then, in fact, than when people received their reward and<br />

had their curiosity satisfied. (http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/<br />

article/item/wired_to_wonder/)<br />

"So," you may ask, "what's wrong with that answer? That<br />

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