Posts Tagged ‘mentally-effortful’
Maximize the Cognitive Value of Your Mental Workout
Physical fitness. Cognitive/ brain fitness. Both require novelty, variety and challenge. Professor Schlomo Breznitz, a scientific and business leader in the cognitive fitness field, explains why, eloquently, below. Perhaps “we want change” really means “we need change”. Enjoy! ———————— Why are everyday life challenges not sufficient to keep our brains fit? – By Prof. Shlomo…
Read More“Brainfood” Makes the Dictionary!
A fun article from the BBC highlights some of the latest entries to the 2.5 billion-word database of words in the Collins English Dictionary, 9th edition.We were of course biased and happy to see “brainfood” as a newly minted word. According to Webster’s New Millenniumâ„¢ Dictionary of English, they define “brain food”…any food that is considered to aid intelligence, memory, or creativity; by extension, any intellectual sustenance.We’d like to add SharpBrains to the list of brain foods!
Read MoreTake the Senses Challenge
Take the fun link to a series of 20 timed puzzles put together by the BBC. Another brain teaser.
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