Caroline Latham

Brain teasers en español: ¿cuál es el número que falta en el cuarto triángulo?

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(Same brain teas­er in Eng­lish here)

Es viernes y quizás algunos nece­site­mos un pequeño empu­jón cog­ni­ti­vo para abor­dar el fin de semana…

Aquí va un breve desafío matemáti­co: ¿Qué número que fal­ta en el cuar­to triángulo?

Pattern Recognition Test - Empty Triangle

Avi­so a tod@s esos sharp brains: Sí, puede haber más de una respues­ta … pero asegúrate de que tu solu­ción fun­ciona bien en todos los triángulos!
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Five fun brain teasers to thank evolution for our human brains and minds

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To cel­e­brate this quite-chal­leng­ing Thanks­giv­ing, here are five fun brain teasers and games that read­ers have enjoyed the most this year so far. It is always good to learn more about (and appre­ci­ate) that most pre­cious resource we all (yes, all) have up there!

#1. First of all, these days it’s always impor­tant to test your stress level

#2. You say you know the col­ors? Try the Stroop Test

#3. Check out this clas­sic atten­tion experiment

#4. What do you know about men­tal self-rota­tion?

#5. Last but not least, here are ten clas­sic illu­sions to tease your mind.

 

Thank you in advance for try­ing them, enjoy­ing them, and shar­ing them 🙂

 

To explore more brain teasers, games and puzzles:

A few brain teasers to flex those cognitive muscles over the weekend

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Look around you, wher­ev­er you are, and find three green things that may fit in your pock­ets, and three red objects that are clear­ly too big to fit.

Done?

OK, now you have six objects.

Go ahead and say their names in alpha­bet­i­cal order. 

Done?

Now name them in reverse alpha­bet­i­cal order.

Done?

Now count the total num­ber of syl­la­bles in those six words.

Not easy, right? 

All these men­tal oper­a­tions engage your work­ing mem­o­ry — think of work­ing mem­o­ry as your tem­po­rary men­tal work­space where you can hold and inte­grate sev­er­al units of infor­ma­tion at once.

Feel free to prac­tice in dif­fer­ent loca­tions … you can take these brain teasers with you, any­where you go 🙂

To explore more fun brain teaser games and puzzles:

Five quick brain teasers to flex those Attention and Working Memory mental muscles

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Look­ing for some fun cog­ni­tive stim­u­la­tion to kick­start the week?

Below you’ll find a few brain teasers to chal­lenge your atten­tion and your work­ing mem­ory–the abil­ity to keep infor­ma­tion in your mind while manip­u­lat­ing mul­ti­ple units of infor­ma­tion at the same time.

Giv­en them a try … they are not as easy as they may sound 🙂 [Read more…] about Five quick brain teasers to flex those Atten­tion and Work­ing Mem­o­ry men­tal muscles

Brain teaser to stimulate your mental imagery, spatial rotation … and appetite

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Here’s a fun puz­zle that a friend shared over zoom a few days ago.

Chal­lenge: How can you cut a cake into eight equal pieces with only three cuts?

Note: The cake in the puz­zle is not nec­es­sar­i­ly the one pic­tured above 🙂 Imag­ine your own cake.

Check the answer below only after you’ve tried… [Read more…] about Brain teas­er to stim­u­late your men­tal imagery, spa­tial rota­tion … and appetite

Quick brain teaser to workout your frontal lobes: Can you read this face?

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Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg, in dis­cussing the human brain’s frontal lobes in his excel­lent book The Wis­dom Para­dox, high­lights that “exec­u­tive intel­li­gence” includes the abil­i­ty to “pen­e­trate oth­er people’s minds, and that starts with an inter­est in oth­er people’s minds.”

And, what is a good win­dow to “pen­e­trate oth­er people’s minds” and iden­ti­fy oth­er peo­ple’s emo­tions? [Read more…] about Quick brain teas­er to work­out your frontal lobes: Can you read this face?