Posts Tagged ‘mckinsey’
Calm raises $75 million, expands into corporate mental health and wellness
Calm Meditation App Hits $2 Billion Value With Lightspeed, Goldman Backing (Bloomberg News): Calm, maker of a meditation, sleep and relaxation app, doubled its valuation to $2 billion after raising capital from existing backers including Lightspeed Venture Partners, TPG and Insight Partners.
Read MoreTop 7 Brainteasers for Job Interviews and Brain Challenge
Growing number of companies uses brain teasers and logic puzzles called guesstimations during job interviews. Through these puzzles, brain helps to solve problems, cognitive flexibility, planning and improve working memory.
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 MoreHeart Rate Variability as an Index of Regulated Emotional Responding
Continuing with the theme of a Week of Science sponsored by Just Science, we will highlight some of the key points in: Appelhans BM, Luecken LJ. Heart Rate Variability as an Index of Regulated Emotional Responding. Review of General Psychology. 2006;10:229–240. Effective emotional regulation depends on being able to flexibly adjust your physiological response to a changing environment moment by moment.Heart rate variability (HRV) is a measure of the continuous interplay between sympathetic and parasympathetic influences on heart rate that yields information about autonomic flexibility and thereby represents the capacity for regulated emotional responding.
Read MoreMemory training and attention deficits: interview with Notre Dame’s Bradley Gibson
Professor Bradley Gibson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at University of Notre Dame, and Director of the Perception and Attention Lab there. He is a cognitive psychologist with research interests in perception, attention, and visual cognition. Gibson’s research has been published in a variety of journals, including Journal of Experimental Psychology,…
Read MoreBrain Training with Cognitive Simulations
Today we will continue our review of the benefits of brain training for specific occupations: in this case, pilots and basketball players. The lessons can be relevant not only for corporate training but also for education and brain health & wellness. To do so, we will select quotes from our interview last year with one…
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