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Cognitive development across the lifespan (young minds’ edition)

December 9, 2014 by SharpBrains

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Cog­ni­tive devel­op­ment (great arti­cle at Fron­tiers for Young Minds; a new pub­li­ca­tion “edit­ed for kids, by kids”):

“…The dis­tinc­tion between flu­id and crys­tal­lized intel­li­gence is impor­tant because the two are influ­enced by dif­fer­ent fac­tors. While the for­mer is more bio­log­i­cal­ly deter­mined and genet­i­cal­ly pre­dis­posed, the lat­ter is shaped more by expe­ri­ence. This is a lit­tle bit sim­i­lar to what we know of sports [Read more…] about Cog­ni­tive devel­op­ment across the lifes­pan (young minds’ edition)

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance Tagged With: Brain Teasers, cognitive-abilities, cognitive-development, crystallized-intelligence, fluid-intelligence

Education for Mental Fitness: “A Sharper Mind, Middle Age and Beyond”

January 19, 2012 by Alvaro Fernandez

Kudos to Patri­cia Cohen for one of the best arti­cles I have read in The New York Times in a long time: A Sharp­er Mind, Mid­dle Age and Beyond, by Patri­cia Cohen. These are a few quotes — please do read the arti­cle in full, it is worth it.

  • “Some peo­ple are much bet­ter than their peers at delay­ing age-relat­ed declines in mem­o­ry and cal­cu­lat­ing speed. What researchers want to know is why. Why does your 70-year-old neigh­bor score half her age on a mem­o­ry test, while you, at 40, have the mem­o­ry of a senior cit­i­zen? [Read more…] about Edu­ca­tion for Men­tal Fit­ness: “A Sharp­er Mind, Mid­dle Age and Beyond”

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: aging, brainpower, cognitive-skills, crystallized-intelligence, Education & Lifelong Learning, fluid-intelligence, memory, memory-test, mental-fitness, middle-age, Patricia Cohen, sharp mind

Cognitive Ability: Brain Games or Drugs?

May 18, 2008 by Dr. Pascale Michelon

A recent sci­en­tif­ic study is being wel­comed as a land­mark that shows how flu­id intel­li­gence can be improved through train­ing. I inter­viewed one of the researchers recent­ly (Can Intel­li­gence Be Trained? Mar­tin Buschkuehl shows how), and con­trib­u­tor Dr. Pas­cale Mich­e­lon adds her own take with the great arti­cle that fol­lows. Enjoy!

Ref­er­ence: Jaeg­gi, S. M., Buschkuehl, M., Jonides, J., & Per­rig, W. J. (2008). Improv­ing Flu­id Intel­li­gence With Train­ing on Work­ing Mem­o­ry. Pro­ceed­ings of the Nation­al Acad­e­my of Sci­ences of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca, 105(19), 6829–6833

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What is intelligence? 

Intel­li­gence is a con­cept dif­fi­cult to define as it seems to cov­er many dif­fer­ent types of abilities.

One def­i­n­i­tion dis­so­ci­ates between crys­tal­lized intel­li­gence or abil­i­ties and flu­id intel­li­gence. Crys­tal­lized intel­li­gence refers to the knowl­edge acquired through­out life such as vocab­u­lary. Flu­id intel­li­gence is the abil­i­ty that allows us to adapt to new sit­u­a­tions or problems.

[Read more…] about Cog­ni­tive Abil­i­ty: Brain Games or Drugs?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: aging, Brain-based-Learning, Brain-games, brain-research, cognitive-abilities, cognitive-ability, cognitive-enhancement, cognitive-exercises, cognitive-games, cognitive-lab, computerized-brain-games, crystallized-intelligence, fluid-intelligence, free-brain-exercise, intelligence, Jaeggi, test-your-brain, train-intelligence, transfer, Working-memory

Exercise Your Brain! Enjoy Learning!

July 30, 2007 by Alvaro Fernandez

Dr. Michael Merzenich has writ­ten a great post titled “cog­ni­tive reserve is a good thing to work on!. Rec­om­mend­ed read­ing if you are inter­est­ed in anoth­er sci­en­tif­ic per­spec­tive for cog­ni­tive training.

I agree we should know more (as usu­al), espe­cial­ly for pol­i­cy deci­sions, but there is enough research, from Mar­i­an Dia­mond et al (see beau­ti­ful essays below) work on enriched envi­ron­ments to cog­ni­tive reserve and train­ing, that is shout­ing at all of us: Exer­cise Your Brain! Enjoy Learn­ing! Sta­tis­tics such as that the aver­age Amer­i­can-includ­ing kids- watch 5 hours of TV dai­ly… don’t mean “we need more research” but “how can we change this”?.

See a cou­ple of quotes from my recent inter­view with Yaakov Stern on the Cog­ni­tive Reserve.

  • “well…I was pret­ty sur­prised when, years ago, a reporter from Sev­en­teen mag­a­zine request­ed an inter­view. I was real­ly curi­ous to learn why [Read more…] about Exer­cise Your Brain! Enjoy Learning!

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Cognitive-Training, concentrationlearning, conference, crystallized-intelligence, culture, expert-knowledge--neurons, Neuropsychology, teachers, train-intelligence

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