Pattern Recognition Brain Teaser

By Caroline Latham | November 22, 2006 |

Here’s a puz­zle to test your abil­i­ty to find a pat­tern and test it against more data. In this table, each row across fol­lows the same pat­tern of num­bers. See if you can dis­cern the pat­tern and fill in the miss­ing num­ber in the bot­tom row. For added chal­lenge (or com­pe­ti­tion), time how long it takes…

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Mind Wars and The Dana Guide to Brain Health

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 17, 2006

Being a fan of the Dana Foun­da­tion and their pod­cast series, I felt hon­ored when Dana Press rep­re­sen­ta­tives asked whether I would like to receive and review 2 of their recent books, Mind Wars: Brain Research and Nation­al Defense, and The Dana Guide to Brain Health: a Prac­ti­cal Fam­i­ly Ref­er­ence from Med­ical Experts.  They just arrived,…

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Why do You Turn Down the Radio When You’re Lost?

By Caroline Latham | November 11, 2006 |

. You’re dri­ving through sub­ur­bia one evening look­ing for the street where you’re sup­posed to have din­ner at a friend’s new house. You slow down to a crawl, turn down the radio, stop talk­ing, and stare at every sign. Why is that? Nei­ther the radio nor talk­ing affects your vision. Or do they?

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Reasoning Skills Brain Teaser

By Caroline Latham | November 8, 2006 |

Puz­zle: Marie, Claude, and Jean are in a com­pe­ti­tion. Here are their results: The youngest per­son received the least points. Claude got half of the points of the eldest. Jean received as many points as both oth­ers com­bined. Ques­tion: Who is the eldest ? The Brain Exer­cise: This puz­zle uses plan­ning and rea­son­ing skills. You read…

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Brain and Mind News: check these blogs

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 7, 2006 |

New issue of a fun way to look at Head­lines from the Brain and Mind Blog­sphere. Thanks to Kevin at his Intel­li­gent Insights on Intel­li­gence The­o­ries and Tests (aka IQ’s Cor­ner) blog. And the Encephalon #10 blog car­ni­val . Enjoy

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