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To reach your cognitive potential across the whole lifespan, augment healthy lifestyle with brain training

October 26, 2015 by SharpBrains

BrainFitnessTrajectoryCan You Get Smarter? (The New York Times):

“A few years back, a joint study by BBC and Cam­bridge Uni­ver­si­ty neu­ro­sci­en­tists put brain train­ing to the test…There was, how­ev­er a glim­mer of hope for sub­jects age 60 and above…Unlike the younger par­tic­i­pants, old­er sub­jects showed a sig­nif­i­cant improve­ment in ver­bal rea­son­ing [Read more…] about To reach your cog­ni­tive poten­tial across the whole lifes­pan, aug­ment healthy lifestyle with brain training

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: BBC, BBC brain training, brain-exercise, Brain-Fitness, Brain-games, Brain-Training, cognitive potential, lifestyle, mental acumen, smart drugs, verbal reasoning

Study: Harnessing fMRI neurofeedback to enhance attention and cognitive potential

February 11, 2015 by SharpBrains

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Real-time brain feed­back reduces atten­tion laps­es (News at Princeton):

“In an arti­cle pub­lished online Mon­day by the jour­nal Nature Neu­ro­science, researchers at Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty describe a study that shows train­ing peo­ple using real-time feed­back from their own brain activ­i­ty can reduce the fre­quen­cy of atten­tion laps­es and improve their abil­i­ty to sus­tain atten­tion. [Read more…] about Study: Har­ness­ing fMRI neu­ro­feed­back to enhance atten­tion and cog­ni­tive potential

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, brain-activity, cognitive potential, depression, fMRI, functional magnetic resonance imaging, mental processes, nature neuroscience, neural signals, Neurofeedback, neuroimaging, neuroscience, rtfMRI

Trend: Harnessing biometrics and cognitive training to improve athletic performance

November 12, 2014 by SharpBrains

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Is Cog­ni­tive Train­ing the Next Fron­tier in Sports? (iQ by Intel):

“The shift to quan­ti­ta­tive analy­sis of so-called ath­lete intan­gi­bles — data pre­vi­ous­ly unat­tain­able before track­ing devices pro­vid­ed empir­i­cal evi­dence — is replac­ing gut instinct and guess­work in sports…the vol­un­teers spent a half hour play­ing a unique video game that record­ed their phys­i­o­log­i­cal reac­tions to [Read more…] about Trend: Har­ness­ing bio­met­rics and cog­ni­tive train­ing to improve ath­let­ic performance

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: athletic performance, biometric, biosignals, cognitive potential, cognitive-skills, Cognitive-Training, frontier, physiological reactions, quantitative, sports, video-game

Dr. Sandra Chapman on Brainomics: How Big Data Provides Gateway to Maximize Human Cognitive Performance

May 22, 2012 by SharpBrains

Dr. Chap­man will dis­cuss Brain­omics: How Big Data Pro­vides Gate­way to Max­i­mize Human Cog­ni­tive Per­for­mance, at the upcom­ing 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (June 7–14th, 2012).

San­dra Bond Chap­man, Ph.D., founder and chief direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Brain­Health at The Uni­ver­sity of Texas at Dal­las, is com­mit­ted to max­i­miz­ing human cog­ni­tive poten­tial across the entire human lifes­pan. As a cog­ni­tive neu­ro­sci­en­tist with more than 40 fund­ed research grants, [Read more…] about Dr. San­dra Chap­man on Brain­omics: How Big Data Pro­vides Gate­way to Max­i­mize Human Cog­ni­tive Performance

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: big data, brain-development, Brain-health, brain-injury, brainomics, cognitive potential, cognitive-performance, innovation, lifespan

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