Math Brain Teaser: Unfinished Thesis

By Maria Lando | November 4, 2011

Now, test your brain with this math brain teas­er. Every day you take the esca­la­tor into the sub­way, turn right and catch a train going up North to the uni­ver­si­ty. One day you real­ize that the trains on your left going in the oppo­site direc­tion can bring you to the beach. 

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Update: How Stress and Emotions Impact Brain Performance

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 28, 2011

Spon­sored Ad (How to Adver­tise on SharpBrains.com) Time for the Octo­ber edi­tion of the month­ly Sharp­Brains eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing this time sev­er­al arti­cles on the impact of stress, emo­tions, and self-reg­u­la­­tion, on our brain’s struc­ture and per­for­mance. We are pleased to bring to Sharp­Brains read­ers a new 6‑part series on the Neu­ro­bi­ol­ogy of Stress, based on a…

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Brain Study Links Emotional Self-Regulation and Math Performance

By SharpBrains | October 20, 2011

Brain Study Points to Poten­tial Treat­ments for Math Anx­i­ety (Edu­ca­tion Week): “The study, pub­lished this morn­ing in the jour­nal Cere­bral Cor­tex, is a con­tin­u­a­tion of work on high­ly math-anx­ious peo­ple being con­duct­ed by Sian L. Beilock, asso­ciate psy­chol­o­gy pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go, and doc­tor­al can­di­date Ian M. Lyons. In pri­or research, Beilock has found…

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Brain Development Through Bilingual Education and Activities Requiring Self-Control

By SharpBrains | September 18, 2011

How To Help Your Child’s Brain Grow Up Strong (NPR): — “Kids who learn two lan­guages young are bet­ter able to learn abstract rules and to reverse rules that they’ve already learned,” says Aamodt. “They’re less like­ly to have dif­fi­cul­ty choos­ing between con­flict­ing pos­si­bil­i­ties when there are two pos­si­ble respons­es that both present them­selves. They’re…

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Study: Working memory training can improve fluid intelligence

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 14, 2011

Very inter­est­ing new study on com­put­er­ized cog­ni­tive train­ing (or brain train­ing), well sum­ma­rized in LA Times arti­cle Mem­o­ry train­ing improves intel­li­gence in some chil­dren, report says. Quote: The train­ing pro­gram used by Jaeg­gi and co-work­ers focused on ramp­ing up work­ing mem­o­ry: the abil­i­ty to hold in mind a hand­ful of infor­ma­tion bits briefly, and to update…

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