Can you use mental self rotation to read a map?

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | August 15, 2008 |

What is men­tal self rota­tion? It is the abil­i­ty to imag­ine your­self in dif­fer­ent loca­tions in space and imag­ine your body mov­ing in space. This is an abil­i­ty that is used in dif­fer­ent every­day activ­i­ties such as nav­i­gat­ing in an envi­ron­ment or read­ing a map. Abil­i­ty involved: ego­cen­tric spa­tial trans­for­ma­tions (yes, that is the sci­en­tif­ic expression)…

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#15. Top fun and brainy Haikus. Yours?

By SharpBrains | July 26, 2008 |

Read­ers have con­tributed a good num­ber of haikus on brain-relat­ed top­ics. Below you have our favorite ones. Our favorite fun and brainy Haikus — Techne, the philoso­pher, won­ders: Solve the big ques­tions: How do I know when I know? Who knows the know­er? — Steve, the envi­ron­men­tal­ist, requests: Neu­ro­plas­tic good. Plas­tic, though lasts for­ev­er. Always recycle!

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Brain Fitness Update: Why We Need Walking Book Clubs

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 1, 2008

Here you are have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our most pop­u­lar blog posts. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. News CNN: Aging boomers fuel ‘brain fit­ness’ explo­sion: An excel­lent arti­cle via Asso­ci­at­ed Press explor­ing why the brain fit­ness market…

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Cognitive Ability: Brain Games or Drugs?

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | May 18, 2008

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,…

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What’s on your mind now?

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 15, 2007 |

I’d love to know what was going in your mind just a few sec­onds ago, when you start­ed read­ing the title of this post. That will help us under­stand your mind­set, pri­or­i­ties, ques­tions, con­cerns, interests, and keep improv­ing our blog! Thank you

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