Posts Tagged ‘emotional-self-regulation’
Virtual “Brain Games” roundtable: Why we can, and SHOULD, train our brains
In preparation for the new season of National Geographic’s Brain Games, starting this Sunday February 14th, their producers asked us to participate in a virtual roundtable around this thought-provoking question: Do you think individuals can train their brain to respond in a particular way to certain situations, or do you think our brain’s innate “startle response”…
Read MoreBrain Study Links Emotional Self-Regulation and Math Performance
Brain Study Points to Potential Treatments for Math Anxiety (Education Week): “The study, published this morning in the journal Cerebral Cortex, is a continuation of work on highly math-anxious people being conducted by Sian L. Beilock, associate psychology professor at the University of Chicago, and doctoral candidate Ian M. Lyons. In prior research, Beilock has found…
Read MoreWho Says This is The Classroom of the Future?
The New York Times has recently published several very good and seemingly unrelated articles…let’s try and connect some dots. What if we questioned the very premise behind naming some classrooms the “classrooms of the future” simply because they have been adding technology in literally mindless ways? What if the Education of the Future (sometimes also…
Read MoreDebunking 10 Brain Training/ Cognitive Health Myths
Think about this: How can anyone take care of his or her brain when every week brings a new barrage of articles and studies which seem to contradict each other? Do supplements improve memory? Do you need both physical and mental exercise or is one of them enough? Which brain training approach, if any, is worth…
Read MoreETech09: on Life Hacking and Brain Training
Here you have the presentation I delivered on Tuesday at ETech 2009 (this year’s O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference): Emerging Research and Technology for Life Hacking/ Brain Training (click to open presentation in new window) Description: Life hacking. Brain training. They are one and the same. The brain’s frontal lobes enable our goal-oriented behavior, supporting executive…
Read MoreDistracted in the Workplace? Interview with Maggie Jackson around brain health at work
Today we continue the conversation with Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age. You can read part 1 here. Q — In your Harvard Management Update interview, you said that “When what we pay attention to is driven by the last email we received, the trivial and the…
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