Brain Teasers
Seven brain teasers and a neuroplasticity podcast to celebrate Brain Awareness Week 2021
Brain Awareness Week 2021 takes place next month. Why not start celebrating now by challenging our minds and discussing the latest about lifelong neuroplasticity? Here’s a selection of seven stimulating brain teasers that readers enjoyed the most in 2020:
Read MoreIf you’re a fruit fly, tease your mind with this optical illusion. Humans welcome too.
Please move your gaze around the image, resting from time to time. Then, fix your gaze at a point, and see what happens. You will probably first see ‘snakes’ rotating, some clockwise, others anticlockwise, and then stop.
Read MoreFun brain teaser to test your cognitive skills during International Brain Teaser Month
Memory relies mostly on the temporal lobes (see green area) and also the frontal lobes (red), so those are the areas that will get some good neuronal activation when readers raised in the US try to remember the missing words in the American proverbs below. Now, if you were raised outside the US and are…
Read MoreThe latest on Brain Health and Resilience, plus a few fun Brain Teasers
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, featuring fascinating neuroscience findings and tips, combined with fun brain teasers. #1. To celebrate this quite-challenging Thanksgiving, here are five fun brain teasers that readers have enjoyed the most this year so far. It is always good to learn more about (and appreciate) that most precious resource…
Read MoreFive fun brain teasers to thank evolution for our human brains and minds
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…
Read MoreA few brain teasers to flex those cognitive muscles over the weekend
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…
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