Mind Teaser: Consider Linda

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 30, 2008 |

(I hope you enjoy this very reveal­ing mind teas­er!) Please con­sid­er Lin­da, a 31-year-old woman, sin­gle and bright. When she was a stu­dent, both in high school and col­lege, she was deeply con­cerned with dis­crim­i­na­tion and social jus­tice, and also par­tic­i­pat­ed in anti-nuclear protests. Which is more prob­a­ble about Lin­da’s occu­pa­tion today? (a) Lin­da is…

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Why Smart Brains Make Stupid Decisions

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 20, 2008 |

It hap­pens. Often. Why? We just secured an inter­view with Ori Braf­man, co-author of Sway: The Irre­sistible Pull of Irra­tional Behav­ior (Dou­ble­day Busi­ness, 2008), to dis­cuss our Dark Side (well, he calls it “dif­fer­ent hid­den forces” and “psy­cho­log­i­cal under­cur­rents”). While read­ing some reviews about his book, I par­tic­u­lar­ly enjoyed find­ing, after the usu­al impres­sive long collection…

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Try Thinking and Learning Without Working Memory

By Dr. Bill Klemm | May 25, 2008 |

    Imag­ine dial­ing a phone num­ber by hav­ing to look up each dig­it one at a time in the phone book. Nor­mal­ly, you look up the num­ber and remem­ber all sev­en dig­its long enough to get it dialed. Even with one dig­it at a time, you would have to remem­ber each dig­it long enough…

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Improving Driving Skills and Brain Functioning- Interview with ACTIVE’s Jerri Edwards

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 4, 2008 |

Today we are for­tu­nate to inter­view Dr. Jer­ri Edwards, an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor at Uni­ver­si­ty of South Flori­da’s School of Aging Stud­ies and Co-Inves­ti­­ga­­tor of the influ­en­cial ACTIVE study. Dr. Edwards was trained by Dr. Kar­lene K. Ball, and her research is aimed toward dis­cov­er­ing how cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties can be main­tained and even enhanced with advanc­ing age.…

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