You brush your teeth, you brush your teeth.
If you had to actually bring your, toothbrush down and then bring it back up.
If each of those were a separate movement, what would happen?
Well, brushing your teeth would take a lot longer.
It would take a lot more motivated thought, it would or deliberate thought.
And in fact we don't do that, we don't say we don't make
that, those component movement of brushing our teeth separate.
We use them as one chunk and chunking
is a very important function of the Basal ganglia.
You do that whenever you learn some new movement,
you've done it since when you were a baby.
When you were a baby you started to look at faces
and you move your eyes, you move your eyes around that face.
And that enables you to recognize who that person is.
And the way you move your eyes, it has a lot of separate components.
You go from one eye to the other eye down to the
mouth, back to the eyes, across, across, around the perimeter of the face.
Those are all separate movements but they all get chucked
into this one movement that is scanning an individual's face.
So, we, we chunk a lot of movements, movements that we do all the time.
You are maybe more aware, you're probably not aware
of the fact that you've chunked scanning faces because we
do it all the time we've been doing it
since we were babies and we don't think about it.
But you, if you learned a complex movement such as
driving, you'll know that when you first started to drive, every piece
of driving felt like a, a very complex and difficult task.
So just steering and putting on the
windshield wipers and putting on a turn signal
and glancing in the rearview mirror or the
side mirror, those all felt like separate movements.
But after you've driven for five years or ten years
or 30 years, they all feel like one big chunk.
It's the driving chunk.
Okay.
So that's the advantage of dr, of chunking.
It makes things, number one, way faster.