Motor and vestibular programs can set a condition in the brain for learning other things.

“so let's talk about some classic experiments that really nail down what's most important in this discussion about plasticity as I mentioned last episode and I'll just tell you right now again the brain is incredibly plastic from about birth until about age 25 and then somewhere about 25 it's not like the day after your 26th birthday plasticity closes there's a kind tapering off of plasticity and you need different mechanisms to engage plasticity as an adult knowing how to tap into these plasticity mechanisms is very powerful”