>There's a book on one of my study shelves at home by an >American neurologist. I'm sorry, I can't recall the name, but >I think it may have been the same one who wrote "Toscanini's >Fumble". One of the essays in it concerns the failure of >someone famous in sport X to be any good in sport Y, to which >he transferred.
However there's also a book called "Tone Deaf and All Thumbs" which points out that lots of people learn things later in life particularly in music. (There is also a book called "Tolstoy's Bicycle" which lists the age at which people learned things). L. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
