Posts Tagged ‘Cognitive Neuroscience’
Preparing Society for the Cognitive Age (Frontiers in Neuroscience article)
(Editor’s note: this article belongs to the excellent May 2009 special issue on Augmenting Cognition at scientific journal Frontiers in Neuroscience. The article, an industry overview, is reproduced here with authorization by the Frontiers Research Foundation) Preparing Society for the Cognitive Age By Alvaro Fernandez Groundbreaking cognitive neuroscience research has occurred over the last 20 years — without…
Read MoreThe Overflowing Brain: Most Important Book of 2008
We have tracked for several years the scientific studies published by Torkel Klingberg and colleagues, often wondering aloud, “when will educators, health professionals, executives and mainstream society come to appreciate the potential we have in front of us to enhance our brains and improve our cognitive functions?” Dr. Klingberg has just published a very stimulating…
Read MoreWhat You Can do to Improve Memory (and Why It Deteriorates in Old Age)
After about age 50, most people begin to experience a decline in memory capability. Why is that? One obvious answer is that the small arteries of the brain begin to clog up, often as a result of a lifetime of eating the wrong things and a lack of exercise. If that lifetime has been stressful,…
Read MoreBrain Fitness Update: Use It and Improve It
Here you are have the bi-monthly update with our 10 most Popular blog posts. (Also, remember that you can subscribe to receive our RSS feed, or to our newsletter, at the top of this page, if you want to receive this digest by email). In this edition of our newsletter we bring a few articles and…
Read MoreCognitive Training Clinical Trial: Seeking Older Adults
Neuroscientists at Columbia University Medical Center (see our previous interview with Yaakov Stern on the Cognitive Reserve) have asked for help in recruiting volunteers for an exciting clinical trial. If you are based in New York City, and between the ages of 60 and 75, please consider joining this study. More information below: ————————— Use it or…
Read MoreMental Training for Gratitude and Altruism
Brandon Keim writes a nice post on The Future Science of Altruism at Wired Science Blog, based on an interview with Jordan Grafman, chief of cognitive neuroscience at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Brandon provides good context saying that “Scientists, said Grafman, are understanding how our brains are shaped by culture and…
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