Posts Tagged ‘New-Yorker’
Workouts at the (New Yorker) brain gym
Good article on brain fitness and applied neuroplasticity in the July 29th edition of The New Yorker, featuring many SharpBrains friends. Mentally fit — Workouts at the brain gym: “As recently as a few decades ago, most biologists thought that the brain was fully formed during childhood and, like a photograph after it’s been developed, was…
Read More(Some) New Yorker articles are bogus
I love reading the New Yorker. I have written before about bogus brain games, and about bogus brain training claims. We have published a 10-question checklist to help consumers make informed decisions. All this is to say I was surprised to read a recent New Yorker blog article titled “Brain games are bogus.” If you…
Read MoreChanging our Minds…by Reading Fiction
(Editor’s Note: we are pleased to bring you this article thanks to our collaboration with Greater Good Magazine.) Changing our Minds By imagining many possible worlds, argues novelist and psychologist Keith Oatley, fiction helps us understand ourselves and others. ‑By Keith Oatley For more than two thousand years people have insisted that reading fiction is good…
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