Charles Limb: Your Brain on Improv

[Rich Engle]

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Fascinating!

[BaalChatzaf]

http://www.ted.com/t..._on_improv.html

Fascinating!

Ultra Cool. I have participated in studies using functional MRI at Rutgers University. I have to tell you though when they put me head first into the MRI I nearly freaked out. All I could think of was Clarence of George being shoved head down into a Malmsey Butt (see King Richard III, by Shakespeare).

Ba'al Chatzaf

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Rich,

I saw this a couple of days ago. I thought of posting it.

btw - I embedded it in your post, instead of just giving the link.

There's a lot about the brain and mind we are learning that I wish we had known when I was growing up.

Michael