Posts Tagged ‘concept-map’
Memory Improvement Techniques and Brain Exercises
A reader (thanks Mike!) sends us this fun article, titled A matter of training, on how to train our memory. Some quotes: “It’s a skill, not a talent. It’s something anyone could have picked up … I’m not born with this. It’s about training and technique, he says, explaining his unusual ability. Anant holds the…
Read MoreInformation Overload? Seven Learning and Productivity Tips
We often talk in this blog about how to expand fundamental abilities or cognitive functions, like attention, or memory, or emotional self-regulation. Think of them as muscles one can train. Now, it is also important to think of ways one can use our existing muscles more efficiently. Let’s talk about how to manage better the…
Read MoreBrain Teasers and Games for the Brain: Test your Brain
Here are top 50 Brain Teasers that people have enjoyed the most in our blog and speaking engagements.
Read MoreWorking Memory: an image that says much
(Graph Source: Klingberg et al, 2005) Working memory is a key cognitive function that allows you to hold several units of information in mind “online” for brief periods of time, typically a few seconds, and manage them. For example, if I tell you the 7 digits of my telephone number, would you remember them? and, could you…
Read MoreBest of the Brain from Scientific American
The Dana Foundation kindly sent us a copy of the great book Best of the Brain from Scientific American, a collection of 21 superb articles published previously in Scientific American magazine. A very nicely edited and illustrated book, this is a must for anyone who enjoys learning about the brain and speculating about what the…
Read MoreEvery man can, if he so desires, sculpt his own brain
Our daily thoughts and actions, learnings, meditation, cognitive therapy, the growing number of software-based programs, and more, are “sculpting” tools to sharpen our brain
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