Posts Tagged ‘brain-puzzles’
Your brain on puzzles: Insights come with a wider focus of attention.
A fascinating New York Time article on solving puzzles: Why you do it, how you do it, and what’s going on in your brain while you do it. The appeal of puzzles goes far deeper than the dopamine-reward rush of finding a solution. The very idea of doing a crossword or a Sudoku puzzle typically shifts…
Read More#19. Exercise your memory and reasoning skills with these proverbs
Memory relies mostly on the temporal (in green) and frontal (in red) lobes of the brain. Neurons and synapses in these areas will get stimulated when you try to remember the missing words in the American proverbs below (assuming you are American or have lived in the US for long). However, when it comes to the…
Read More#22 Brain Teaser: The Really, Really, Really Big Number
When you divide 12 by 5, the remainder is 2; it’s what’s left over after you have removed all the 5’s from the 12. When you raise 4 to the fifth power (that is, 4^5), you multiply four by itself five times: 4x4x4x4x4, which equals 1,024. What is the remainder when you divide 100^100 by 11?
Read MoreBrain Fitness Programs, “Brain Gyms”…Explained
Thanks to MindHacks for the link to a good Washington Post article, “Pumping Neurons”. A couple of quotes: Recent research shows that the brain remains plastic, or basically trainable, throughout life. In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2002, significant percentages of the 2,802 participants age 65 and older…
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