The Best Way to Learn: Taking a Test?

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | February 2, 2011 |

What do you think is the best way to learn: Study­ing the mate­r­i­al repeat­ed­ly, draw­ing detailed dia­grams of what you are learn­ing, or tak­ing a test in which you recall what you have read? A recent study pub­lished in Sci­ence and sum­ma­rized in this New York Times arti­cle found out that tak­ing a test was the…

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Improve Memory with Sleep, Practice, and Testing

By Dr. Bill Klemm | July 9, 2008 |

There are whole mar­kets (think cross­words, herbal sup­ple­ments, drugs, brain fit­ness soft­ware) aimed at help­ing us improve our mem­o­ry. Now, what is “mem­o­ry”? how does the process of mem­o­ry work? Dr. Bill Klemm, Pro­fes­sor of Neu­ro­science at Texas A&M Uni­ver­si­ty, explains a very impor­tant con­cept below. — Alvaro ——- Get­ting from Here to There: Mak­ing Mem­o­ry Con­sol­i­da­tion Work…

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A Brain Fitness Vacation

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 13, 2007 |

A year ago we wrote a Glos­sary where we defined Brain Fit­ness as “the gen­er­al state of good, sharp, brain and mind, espe­cial­ly as the result of men­tal and phys­i­cal exer­cise and prop­er nutri­tion” and a Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram as a “struc­tured set of brain exer­cis­es, usu­al­ly com­put­er-based, designed to train spe­cif­ic brain areas and…

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