[LUTE] Re: Physiology of playing fast.

2012-03-06 Thread tom
The older I go, the slower I gets ... A description of how muscles contract is here http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/human-biology/musc le3.htm The complexity of the process makes me wonder whether differences in physiology (say, heavily gated sarcoplasmic reticuli)

[LUTE] Re: Physiology of playing fast.

2012-03-05 Thread A.J. Padilla MD
We also need to consider striatal learning. There are two types of learning: Declarative and Striatal Declarative memory is what we usually think of when we use the word memory. It's a collection of facts (or factoids) and concepts. We can describe or declare the contents of declarative memory,

[LUTE] Re: Physiology of playing fast.

2012-03-04 Thread Eugene Kurenko
I can play fast but it takes a lot of every-day-practice. My sister can play fast but she need only 5 minutes to warm-up even after few weeks of rest. 2012/3/5 Herbert Ward [1]wa...@physics.utexas.edu A description of how muscles contract is here