Carol Dweck on Mindsets, Learning and Intelligence

Just came across an excel­lent Inter­view with Car­ol Dweck. Thank you Coert!  Car­ol Dweck is a pro­fes­sor of Psy­chol­o­gy at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty. Last year she pub­lished a great book called Mind­set: The New Psy­chol­o­gy of Suc­cess, where she elab­o­rates on her (and ours) key mes­sage: the way you view your own intel­li­gence large­ly deter­mines how it…

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Darwin’s adult neuroplasticity

Charles Dar­win (1809–1882)‘s auto­bi­og­ra­phy (full text free online) includes some very insight­ful refec­tions on the evo­lu­tion of his own mind dur­ing his mid­­dle-age, show­cas­ing the pow­er of the brain to rewire itself through expe­ri­ence (neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty) dur­ing our whole life­­times-not just when we are youngest. He wrote these paragraphs at the age of 72 (I have bold­ed some key…

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Working Memory Training from a pediatrician perspective, focused on attention deficits

Today we inter­view Dr. Arthur Lavin, Asso­ciate Clin­i­cal Pro­fes­sor of Pedi­atrics at Case West­ern School of Med­i­cine, pedi­a­tri­cian in pri­vate prac­tice, and one of the first providers of Cogmed Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing in the US (the pro­gram whose research we dis­cussed with Dr. Torkel Kling­berg and Dr. Bradley Gib­son). Dr. Lavin has a long standing…

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Sharpen Your Wits With This Special Offer!

We are offer­ing a lim­it­ed-time deal for the rest of Feb­ru­ary 2007. If you buy any of the fol­low­ing brain fit­ness pro­grams: Freeze-Framer, Mind­Fit, Bas­ket­ball Intel­li­Gym, Cogmed Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing, or Exer­cise your Brain DVD, you will get Brain Fit­ness 101 includ­ed for free!

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Memory training and attention deficits: interview with Notre Dame’s Bradley Gibson

Pro­fes­sor Bradley Gib­son is an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor in the Depart­ment of Psy­chol­o­gy at Uni­ver­si­ty of Notre Dame, and Direc­tor of the Per­cep­tion and Atten­tion Lab there. He is a cog­ni­tive psy­chol­o­gist with research inter­ests in per­cep­tion, atten­tion, and visu­al cog­ni­tion. Gib­son’s research has been pub­lished in a vari­ety of jour­nals, includ­ing Jour­nal of Exper­i­men­tal Psychology,…

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Working Memory Training

Reminder: 60 or so sci­ence blog­gers are cel­e­brat­ing the Week of Sci­ence pre­sent­ed at Just Sci­ence, from Mon­day, Feb­ru­ary 5, through Sun­day, Feb­ru­ary 11. We will be writ­ing about “just sci­ence” this week, by dis­cussing peer-reviewed research papers in the field of brain fit­ness. Yes­ter­day we talked about Cog­ni­tive Reserve and Lifestyle, a paper and…

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