brain games for adults

12 quick brain puzzles to welcome a sharp new year

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Q: What is by far the most out­stand­ing and sur­pris­ing of all humankind’s successes?
A: Wak­ing up in the morning.

Q: Of our many tools, which is one of the most pow­er­ful, and yet the most pliable?
A: Statistics.

Q: Who insists that mind­less obe­di­ence is a sign of intelligence?
A: All of us — when refer­ring to our pets. [Read more…] about 12 quick brain puz­zles to wel­come a sharp new year

Test your cognitive flexibility with this fun brain teaser

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Ready to test your cog­ni­tive flex­i­bil­i­ty and con­cen­tra­tion pow­ers? Try this clas­sic brain teas­er, fun for kids and adults alike.

Quick! Say aloud what col­or you see in every word. Don’t read the word — say the color 🙂

Tougher than expect­ed, right? This brain teas­er is actu­al­ly called the Stroop Test and is often used in neu­ropsy­cho­log­i­cal eval­u­a­tions to mea­sure exec­u­tive func­tions such as cog­ni­tive flex­i­bil­i­ty, inhi­bi­tion and self-reg­u­la­tion capability.

For more brain teasers and also visu­al illusions:

5 quick brain teasers to sharpen two key cognitive skills: attention and working memory

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Look­ing for some fun–and free–cognitive stim­u­la­tion over the week­end? Here you have a few quick brain teasers to chal­lenge your atten­tion and your work­ing mem­ory (work­ing mem­ory is the capac­i­ty to keep infor­ma­tion in your mind while work­ing on pro­cess­ing and inte­grat­ing it)

Please give them a try…they are not as easy as they may seem 🙂 [Read more…] about 5 quick brain teasers to sharp­en two key cog­ni­tive skills: atten­tion and work­ing memory

Brain teasers for teens and adults to test and train cognitive skills

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BrainFiringMind games that can sharp­en the brain (Mia­mi Herald):

“A great resource for find­ing “mind games,” or what’s pop­u­lar­ly know as “brain train­ing,” is the web­site of Sharp­Brains, a com­pa­ny that tracks health and well­ness appli­ca­tions of brain sci­ence. Its founder and CEO, Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, writes in his blog that, “Any­thing we do involv­ing nov­el­ty, vari­ety and chal­lenge stim­u­lates the brain and can con­tribute to build­ing capac­i­ty and brain reserve.”

Fer­nan­dez advis­es choos­ing a game “that exer­cis­es a core brain-based capac­i­ty … that is rel­e­vant to real-life out­comes.” For exam­ple, in his list of the “ Top 50 Brain Teasers and Games” that his read­ers have enjoyed the most [Read more…] about Brain teasers for teens and adults to test and train cog­ni­tive skills