Brain Teasers with a Neuroscience angle

Quick! say aloud the col­or you see in every word, DON“T sim­ply read the word. The Stroop test is used in neu­ropsy­cho­log­i­cal eval­u­a­tions to mea­sure men­tal vital­i­ty and flex­i­bil­i­ty, since per­form­ing well requires strong impulse-con­trol capa­bil­i­ty. This is one of the Top 10 Brain Teasers and Games we pro­file here. Want more teasers? You can check…

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Nintendo BrainAge, Lumosity, Happy Neuron, MyBrainTrainer…

A col­lec­tion of recent announce­ment in the “brain games” or “brain train­ing games” space: The Wii sets new gen­er­a­tional stan­dards for the videogame indus­try “The age­ing of the Japan­ese pop­u­la­tion com­pelled gamemak­er Nin­ten­do to widen its audi­ence. Now, the Wii is lead­ing the indus­try stan­dards. But hard­core gamers are still too impor­tant to be neglected.”…

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I have to exercise my brain, too

I was exposed to a fun brain exer­cise on Mon­day: attend my first-ever live TV pro­gram, be ready for 3 very pre­cise questions…and then be asked oth­ers. The anchors were fun. It was fas­ci­nat­ing to observe, behind the scenes, the mak­ing of a news pro­gram: con­stant last-minute appar­ent chaos, the lawyer in the “ask the…

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Stress Management Workshop for International Women’s Day

Today is Inter­na­tion­al Wom­en’s Day 2007. Glob­al con­sult­ing com­pa­ny Accen­ture orga­nized a series of events, and I was for­tu­nate to lead a fun work­shop on The Neu­ro­science of Stress and Stress Man­age­ment in their San Fran­cis­co office, help­ing over 125 accom­plished women (and a few men) learn what stress is, its impli­ca­tions for our brain…

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Top 10 Brain Teasers and Games, with a neuroscience angle

No mat­ter what we are read­ing or doing, there is always the need to take a lit­tle break and chal­lenge our minds (and to learn a bit about how our brains work).… If you care for Brain Fit­ness Pro­grams, check out Mind­Fit for an over­all men­tal work­out, Intel­li­Gym for bas­ket­ball game-intel­li­gence, RoboMemo for work­ing mem­o­ry train­ing, Freeze-Framer for stress man­age­ment and peak performance.

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Stroop Test, Inhibition and Brain-based coaching

Stephanie at Ide­alawg alerts us of a recent arti­cle, titled “A Brain-based Approach to Coach­ing”, that serves as fol­low-up to the one we wrote about on the “Neu­ro­science of Lead­er­ship”. The authors, David Rock and Jef­frey Schwartz, are host­ing a a free webi­nar on Thurs­day Novem­ber 2, 2006, from 2 to 3 PM East­ern. One…

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