Test your stress level with this quick brain teaser

By Caroline Latham | July 4, 2014 |

Here’s a quick test to deter­mine your stress lev­el.  Read the fol­low­ing descrip­tion com­pletely before look­ing at the pic­ture linked below. The pic­ture was used in a case study on stress lev­els at St. Mary’s Hos­pi­tal. Look at both dol­phins jump­ing out of the water. The dol­phins are essen­tial­ly iden­ti­cal. A close­ly mon­i­tored, sci­en­tific study revealed that,…

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Posit Science & InSight for Visual Processing

By Caroline Latham | March 17, 2008

Posit Sci­ence Cor­po­ra­tion announced today, at the annu­al Inter­na­tion­al Long Term Care Insur­ance Conference, the launch of a new pro­gram called  InSight™ for visu­al pro­cess­ing train­ing. We have not yet had the chance to ana­lyze the pro­gram, but sev­er­al per­ti­nent open ques­tions posed by Alvaro last month to Posit Sci­ence rep­re­sen­ta­tives (see Posit Sci­ence Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram 2.0: Open…

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#20. Pattern Recognition Brain Teaser — The Empty Triangle

By Caroline Latham | June 22, 2007 |

Please enjoy this brain teas­er com­pli­ments of puz­zle mas­ter Wes Car­roll. He found this one in the Men­sa pub­li­ca­tion Num­ber Puz­zles for Math Genius­es by Harold Gale.The Emp­ty TriangleQuestion:Which fig­ure should be placed in the emp­ty triangle?This puz­zle works your exec­u­tive func­tions in your frontal lobes by using your pat­tern recog­ni­tion, hypoth­e­sis test­ing, and logic.Click here to read the Answer and Solution.

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Cognitive Fitness Training for the Brain

By Caroline Latham | June 19, 2007

There is a great arti­cle on some find­ings from The Brain Fit­ness in Old­er Adults (B‑fit) study post­ed at Psych Cen­tral: Fit­ness Train­ing for the Brain.Here are a few key points:As we age, we expe­ri­ence changes in how we per­ceive the infor­ma­tion that our eyes and ears gath­er from the envi­ron­ment.… This can lead to dif­fi­cul­ties in block­ing out dis­tract­ing sights and sounds while still main­tain­ing focus on impor­tant information.Early results from a Wake For­est Uni­ver­si­ty Bap­tist Med­ical Cen­ter study appear to affirm cog­ni­tive ben­e­fits as atten­tion train­ing allowed old­er adults to block out dis­trac­tions and improve concentration.

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Recommended Reading

By Caroline Latham | June 19, 2007

Here are a few blog car­ni­vals we rec­om­mend check­ing out: Of course, our own Brain Fit­ness June Blog Car­ni­va­lEn­cephalon #25 — The Neu­ro­science and Psy­chol­o­gy Blog Carnival.Success and Abun­dance Mind­set Carnival.Total Mind and Body Fit­ness Blog Car­ni­val #2.Living by Design Blog Car­ni­val No.10.These car­ni­vals have pulled togeth­er some top arti­cles on every­thing from sci­ence to life skills to fun things. So, enjoy your reading!

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