Posts Tagged ‘cognitive-scientists’
In the News: Brain Calisthenics, Bilingual Brains, Debunking Myths on Mental Illness
Let us highlight a couple of insightful and brief articles in the New York Times and a very powerful analysis in The New York Review of Books; they provide useful clues about Brain Calisthenics, Bilingual Brains, and Debunking Myths on Mental Illness.
Read MoreArts and Smarts: Test Scores and Cognitive Development
This is an interesting article from Greater Good Magazine, which talks about how test scores activates cognitive development.
Read MoreEmotional self-regulation and Obama
Great article in the New York Times on Obama’s emotional self-regulation abilities: The Cool Factor: Never Let Them See You Sweat — “We even elevate such equilibrium to the superhuman: calm, as applied to No Drama Obama, often comes linked to the modifier “preternatural.” — “But the calm temperament is not so superhuman, nor is it…
Read MoreTraining Young Brains to Behave
Great article in the New York Times titled Training Young Brains to Behave. A couple of quotes: — “But just as biology shapes behavior, so behavior can accelerate biology. And a small group of educational and cognitive scientists now say that mental exercises of a certain kind can teach children to become more self-possessed at…
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