MUSCLE MEMORY IS REAL!

Even the simplest daily actions involve the complex movement of many different muscles, for many of these actions, we have practiced again and again throughout our lives. There are a lot of actions in our daily lives that we practice many times but are not aware of, and we teach our bodies to do it. For example, is it possible that someone who has never been on a bike can use the bike for the first time? Or can a musician play a solo he or she has never played before without mistakes for the first time? Does what we call muscle memory allow us to perform these actions? Come on, let us do this together!

How does it work?

Muscle memory is the act of novelization through the repetition of a particular motor task. While your muscles cannot actually remember anything, they are full of neurons that are linked to your nervous system, which play a role in motor learning. Any movement requires brain activity, and repeating a movement. Even complex ones, enough times triggers recognizable patterns in your brain regions responsible for motor skills. We can roughly call this triggered location the formation of novelization.

In short, the ability of your body to pick up where it left off is called novelization. In fact, your muscles do not memorize anything; they memorize how the brain’s motor skills are made.

Changes that occur in the brain during skill learning and memory alter the movements produced by altering the information which the brain sends to the muscles. Memory for skills can be thought of as another separate system. For example, imagine that you walk perfectly, but for someone to learn to swim, it does not mean that you can explain what you know in words. You may not even remember when or where you learned this skill.

Your motor skills can surprise you…

Fine motor skills are very important in musical instruments. It was found to rely on novelistic memory while playing the clarinet to help create special effects with certain tongue movements, especially when blowing air into the instrument. Some human behaviors, especially actions such as finger movements in musical performances, are very complex and require many interconnected neural networks in which information can be transmitted across multiple brain regions. Professional musicians have often been found to have functional differences in their brains compared to other individuals. This is thought to reflect the musician’s innate ability, and this can be encouraged by early exposure to music education.

That is true when you learn to do anything else physically. Whether it is a somersault or a melody on the piano. Neurons inside your muscles also play a powerful role, but the activity pattern that helps you perform the same action over and over takes place inside your brain.

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