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Five brain teasers to celebrate Brain Awareness Week 2021

March 16, 2021 by SharpBrains

Brain Aware­ness Week 2021 just start­ed. Let’s cel­e­brate by chal­leng­ing our minds with a few fun brain teasers and illusions 🙂

Here’s a selec­tion of five stim­u­lat­ing brain teasers that read­ers enjoyed the most so far in 2021:

  1. Where’s the baby? And a cou­ple oth­er sur­pris­ing illusions
  2. Please com­plete these proverbs to exer­cise your brain in famil­iar and nov­el ways
  3. Can you con­nect these pairs of words?
  4. Ready to test your stress level?
  5. Which way is the bus head­ing?

About Brain Awareness Week:

Every March, Brain Aware­ness Week (BAW) unites the efforts of part­ner orga­ni­za­tions world­wide in a cel­e­bra­tion of the brain for peo­ple of all ages. Activ­i­ties are lim­it­ed only by the orga­niz­ers’ imag­i­na­tions and include open days at neu­ro­science labs; exhi­bi­tions about the brain; lec­tures on brain-relat­ed top­ics; social media cam­paigns; dis­plays at libraries and com­mu­ni­ty cen­ters; class­room work­shops; and more. This year BAW takes place March 15–21st, 2021.

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers Tagged With: Brain Teasers, brain-awareness-week, cognitive-skills, illusions

Fun optical illusion to tease your mind

July 31, 2020 by SharpBrains

????????RT pic.twitter.com/WBoG7rAD2f

— ?????? (@jagarikin) July 24, 2020

The text above, in Japan­ese, says: “If it appears to rotate, RT” 🙂

You can quick­ly notice how the dots do not move at all … and how the effect takes place.

More fun illusions and brain teasers:

  • What do you see first, peo­ple or oth­er animals?
  • Tease your brain with the Her­mann Grid illusion
  • Test your Brain with these 10 Illusions
  • Top 25 Brain Teasers and Illu­sions for teens and adults

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers Tagged With: Brain Teasers, illusion, illusions, mind, mind-teasers, optical, teaser

Rectangles or circles? This surprising mind teaser highlights the value of perspective diversity and open conversation

July 13, 2020 by SharpBrains

This sur­pris­ing illu­sion by math­e­mati­cian and artist Kokichi Sug­i­hara, named the 2016 Illu­sion of the Year, high­lights the crit­i­cal impor­tance of per­spec­tive diver­si­ty and open conversation.

Sur­prised? [Read more…] about Rec­tan­gles or cir­cles? This sur­pris­ing mind teas­er high­lights the val­ue of per­spec­tive diver­si­ty and open conversation

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Ambiguous Cylinder, brain teaser for adults, Brain Teasers, brain teasers for kids, brain teasers for teens, brain-teaser, illusion, illusions, Kokichi Sugihara, mind-teaser, rectangles, visual-illusions

Update: To improve sleep, combine general sleep hygiene with mindful and cognitive techniques

May 26, 2016 by SharpBrains

sleep———-

Had a good night’s sleep? 

We hope you did, so you can ful­ly enjoy all the fas­ci­nat­ing arti­cles and brain teasers in the new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ eNewslet­ter…includ­ing excel­lent advice on how to com­bine gen­er­al sleep hygiene with mind­ful and cog­ni­tive tech­niques, and a book giveaway. 

Hap­py reading!

New thinking:

  • For a good night’s rest, com­bine gen­er­al sleep hygiene with mind­ful and cog­ni­tive techniques
  • Book review: Grit is a tool in the tool­box, not the sil­ver bullet
  • To boost atten­tion and oth­er cog­ni­tive skills, learn AND con­tin­u­al­ly prac­tice a sec­ond language
  • Scal­able, med­ica­tion-free relief of cog­ni­tive symp­toms relat­ed to Mul­ti­ple Scle­ro­sis (MS)

New research:

  • How to prop­er­ly “Use it or Lose it”: Kun­dali­ni Yoga vs. Cross­word Puzzles
  • Sta­tus quo is not enough: Com­mon tests for Mild Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment lack both sen­si­tiv­i­ty and specificity
  • Dis­cour­ag­ing new find­ings about pedi­atric care for chil­dren with ADHD: Often, best-prac­tice guide­lines are not followed
  • Busy sched­ules linked to bet­ter mem­o­ry and cog­ni­tion among mid­dle-aged and old­er adults

New tools:

  • FDA clears use of online cognitive/ behav­ioral assess­ment to inform ADHD diagnosis
  • Large mul­ti-cen­ter study to test videogame-like dig­i­tal ther­a­py as (poten­tial­ly) FDA-cleared ADHD treatment
  • Brain train­ing fran­chisor Learn­ingRx set­tles FTC com­plaint about its mar­ket­ing claims
  • Sur­vey finds sig­nif­i­cant promise for home-based, data-rich cog­ni­tive ther­a­py among stroke survivors

Books and other educational resources:

  • Goodreads give­away: 20 copies of The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fitness
  • Book dis­count to hon­or Men­tal Health Aware­ness Month/ Ofer­ta de libro en hon­or del Mes de la Salud Mental
  • Lec­ture Record­ing: 25 Must-Know Facts to Har­ness Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty & Tech­nol­o­gy For Bet­ter Brain Health
  • Online Course: How to Nav­i­gate Con­ven­tion­al and Com­ple­men­tary ADHD Treat­ments for Healthy Brain Development

Finally, some fun Brain teasers:

  • The Her­mann grid opti­cal illu­sion, explained
  • Hard brain teas­er to chal­lenge your pat­tern recognition

 

Have a great month of June!

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: adhd, brain health book, Brain Teasers, brain-book, Brain-Training, cognition, cognitive, cognitive-symptoms, cognitive-therapy, crosswords, GoodReads, grit, illusions, medication-free, memory, mild-cognitive-impairment, mindful, sleep, yoga

Top 10 Brain Teaser Games of 2015 For Teens and Adults

January 12, 2016 by Alvaro Fernandez

brain teasers cognitive stimulationThese are the 10 brain teasers, games & illu­sions that Sharp­Brains read­ers (pri­mar­i­ly adults, but some younger minds too) enjoyed the most in 2015. It is always good to learn more about our brains and to chal­lenge them!

#1. You think you know the col­ors? Try the Stroop Test

#2. Check out this brief atten­tion experiment

#3. Test your stress level

#4. Guess: Are there more con­nec­tions in one human brain or leaves in the whole Amazon?

#5. Quick brain teasers to flex two key men­tal muscles

#6. Count the Fs in this sentence

#7. Can you iden­tify Apple’s logo?

#8. Ten clas­sic opti­cal illu­sions to trick your mind

#9. What do you see?

#10. Fun Men­tal Rota­tion challenge

If you have time for more, check out these Top 25 Brain Teasers, Games and Illu­sions.

We hope you try them, enjoy them, and share them 🙂

Alvaro Fer­nan­dez & the Sharp­Brains Team

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Top Ten Brain Teasers and Games for Kids and Adults alike

November 30, 2010 by Alvaro Fernandez

Over the last Hourglass four years we have post­ed over 100 puz­zles, teasers, rid­dles, illu­sions, and every form of men­tal exer­cise that both chal­lenges and enlight­ens our minds.

Below you have a selec­tion of the ten most pop­u­lar ones among Sharp­Brains read­ers. Enjoy! [Read more…] about Top Ten Brain Teasers and Games for Kids and Adults alike

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