Brain Teaser to Stimulate your Concentration Skills

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | April 6, 2009 |

Learn­ing can be inci­den­tal. We all mem­o­rize facts with­out pay­ing much atten­tion to these facts or with­out will­ing to mem­o­rize them. How­ev­er, when one real­ly wants to mem­o­rize a fact, it is cru­cial to pay atten­tion. Many stud­ies have shown that com­pared to full atten­tion con­di­tions, divid­ing atten­tion dur­ing study time leads to poor memory…

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Update: Learning about Learning/ more on Brain Age

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 1, 2009

Here you have the Jan­u­ary edi­tion of our month­ly newslet­ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness top­ics. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. Bird’s Eye View  Brain fit­ness heads towards its tip­ping point: How do you know when some­thing is…

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Brain teasers and games: ready for a mental workout?

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 27, 2008

You may have already seen that our Teasers sec­tion con­tains not only our selec­tion of Top 50 Brain Teasers and Games, but also a reg­u­lar­ly updat­ed page with lat­est Games for the Brain. Below you have the brain games and teasers we have added in 2008 so far. Ready?  — Octo­ber 2008: Top Brainy Haikus. Yours?.…

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Brainy Haikus for brain training

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 4, 2008 |

Thank you to every­one who has writ­ten so many fun haikus over the sum­mer (fol­low­ing the post Top 25 Brain and Mind Haikus. Yours?). These are the 10 I have enjoyed the most: (Also, Can you write a haiku describ­ing any­thing cross­ing your mind now? Remem­ber the sim­ple rules: write 3 lines, which don’t need…

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