Tease Your Brain

Tease Your Brain

Are you good at concentrating?
Try this experiment to find out!









What You Will Need:

• Yourself!

What You Do:

• Pat the top of your head with one hand.
• At the same time, pat your stomach with your other hand.
• Keep patting your head, but now start to rub your stomach in a circle movement. Can you do it?
• Try changing the patterns — now rub your head while patting your stomach.
• It is easy for your hands to do the same pattern of movement, but it is hard to do two different movements at the same time.

The Science:

When you repeat the same movement with both hands, you get used to moving your hands in this same pattern. Your brain is programmed to do this. Back and forth movements or circular patterns are easy to do, but only one pattern at a time. Both types of movements are programmed into your brain. It takes much more concentration to do two programs at the same time.