{"id":2851,"date":"2009-03-07T18:40:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T03:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2009-08-19T22:55:03","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T05:55:03","slug":"motorcycles-make-you-smarter-japanese-study-discovers-a-link-between-riding-and-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2851","title":{"rendered":"MOTORCYCLES MAKE YOU SMARTER: JAPANESE STUDY DISCOVERS A LINK BETWEEN RIDING AND THINKING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">According to Kyodo News International:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A Tohoku University, Japan, study group and motorcycle maker Yamaha Motor Co. said Wednesday they have found riding motorcycles useful for brain training.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The group, led by Ryuta Kawashima, a professor who is known for brain research, looked into brain functions as measured by devices put on the heads of 21 males riding motorcycles and found their brains&#8217; prefrontal areas activated. The area covers memory, information processing and concentration functions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In another test, 22 males who had motorcycle licenses, but did not ride motorcycles often, were divided into two teams &#8212; one for &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motocrossactionmag.com\/ME2\/dirmod.asp?sid=&amp;nm=&amp;type=news&amp;mod=News&amp;mid=9A02E3B96F2A415ABC72CB5F516B4C10&amp;tier=3&amp;nid=3E73232A9A4D4C7FBCAFD927BE88B14D\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Kyodo News International: A Tohoku University, Japan, study group and motorcycle maker Yamaha Motor Co. said Wednesday they have found riding motorcycles useful for brain training. The group, led by Ryuta Kawashima, a professor who is known for brain research, looked into brain functions as measured by devices put on the heads of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,8,44,45,46,68,47,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fmx","category-motocross","category-motorcycle","category-new-motorcycle-products-tests","category-off-road-dirt-track","category-roadracing","category-scooters","category-street-riding","category-stunting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19216,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions\/19216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}