Posts Tagged ‘driving’
SharpBrains Council Monthly Insights: How will we assess, enhance and repair cognition across the lifespan?
When you think of how the PC has altered the fabric of society, permitting instant access to information and automating processes beyond our wildest dreams, it is instructive to consider that much of this progress was driven by Moore’s law. Halving the size of semiconductor every 18 months catalysed an exponential acceleration in performance. Why…
Read MoreNews: DriveSharp, Cognitive Health, Posit Science and CogniFit
Round-up of recent news on cognitive health and brain fitness: 1) Impressive coup by Posit Science: Walter Mossberg reviews DriveSharp: A Review of DriveSharp (Wall Street Journal) — “My verdict is that it was easy to use, and it did indeed work on my ability to rapidly recall the color and position of multiple moving…
Read MoreReferences on Cognitive Health/ Brain Fitness
This is a partial list of the literature we reviewed during the research phase of our new book, The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness. We know many friends of SharpBrains are researchers, healthcare professionals, graduate/ Ph.D. students, who want have direct access to the references (perhaps PubMed should promote itself as a never ending source…
Read MoreCogniFit (MindFit, DriveFit) raises USD 5 million
From the website of the investing venture capital firm, Milk Capital: Milk Capital invests USD 5 million in CogniFit ‑July 31st, 2008. “Milk Capital invest USD 5M in Cognifit, a company specialized in cognitive and brain software The solutions developed by CogniFit are designed to be applied to a large number of fields, such as…
Read MoreEncephalon: Briefing the Next US President on Neuroscience & Psychology
Dear Mr or Mrs Next US President, We are glad to welcome you to our blog carnival. After a short hiatus, Encephalon is back and gathering steam. We have prepared this “revival” edition just for you, so you can be well informed and impress us all during the upcoming Sciencedebate 2008. Without further ado, let’s…
Read MoreKeep Your Brain Nimble as You Age and Brain Fitness Events
Some good links today: 1) Keep Your Brain Nimble as You Age MSNBC — May 13, 2007 “If using your computer as a mental gym sounds good to you, SharpBrains.com’s Fernandez suggests asking a few questions first to determine a product’s…” 2) Great blog by Stanford Business School’s Jackson library, including an announcement of an upcoming lecture there…
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