International Brain Teaser Month

Mem­o­ry relies most­ly on the tem­po­ral lobes (see green area) and also the frontal lobes (red), so those are the areas that will get some good neu­ronal acti­va­tion when read­ers raised in the US try to remem­ber the miss­ing words in the Amer­i­can proverbs below.

Now, if you were raised out­side the US and are not famil­iar with those proverbs you will have to use your rea­son­ing skills more than your mem­o­ry skills — In that case, frontal lobe acti­va­tion will be wider and more intense.

Con­verse­ly, if you were raised in the US you will find the inter­na­tion­al proverbs below to be more chal­leng­ing. You will not be able to remem­ber them, as you prob­a­bly nev­er learned them, but you should be able to fig­ure them out for extra frontal lobe, cog­ni­tive exercise.

Here’s the task: Guess the miss­ing words of each US and inter­na­tion­al proverb below. Get a pen and piece of paper and write your answers before you check the solutions 🙂

Ready, Set, Go! [Read more…] about Fun brain teas­er to test your cog­ni­tive skills dur­ing Inter­na­tion­al Brain Teas­er Month