Large UC study to investigate when and how brain training transfers (or does not) to broader cognitive and health benefits

By SharpBrains | July 16, 2020

Nation­wide project seeks to under­stand how brain exer­cis­es pro­duce cog­ni­tive ben­e­fits (UC press release): How does mem­o­ry train­ing lead to cog­ni­tive ben­e­fits? Aaron Seitz, direc­tor of the Brain Game Cen­ter for men­tal fit­ness and well-being at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, River­side, has wres­tled with this ques­tion for sev­er­al years. Now he and Susanne Jaeg­gi, an asso­ciate professor…

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Why stress regulation and working memory are core building blocks of lifelong resilience

By SharpBrains | June 23, 2020

How anx­i­ety affects your focus (BBC Work­life): Feel like you can’t con­cen­trate on any­thing at the moment? You’re not alone. The extra anx­i­ety caused by the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic has impaired our work­ing mem­o­ry, experts say … What’s hap­pen­ing is a mal­func­tion of work­ing mem­o­ry: the abil­i­ty to grasp incom­ing infor­ma­tion, form it into a cohe­sive thought,…

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Brain Teaser: What shirt size you need now?

By Maria Lando | May 22, 2020

You have been invit­ed to a fundrais­ing gala and decide that this black-tie event demands an ele­gant white Ital­ian shirt — just like the one you got years ago for your wed­ding. When you find and brave­ly try the wed­ding shirt (size 16) on, you and your wife notice that the col­lar suf­fo­cates you —…

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Brain teaser: Will you finish your thesis on time?

By Maria Lando | February 6, 2020

Imag­ine spend­ing the sum­mer pol­ish­ing your PhD the­sis in the library. Every day you take the sub­way, a train going up North to the uni­ver­si­ty. One day you real­ize that the trains going South can bring you to the beach. Noth­ing is wrong with some leisure. You cal­cu­late that if you spend half of the…

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