Posts Tagged ‘Pattern-Recognition’
Brain Teasers and Games for the Brain: Test your Brain
Here are top 50 Brain Teasers that people have enjoyed the most in our blog and speaking engagements.
Read More#20. Pattern Recognition Brain Teaser — The Empty Triangle
Please enjoy this brain teaser compliments of puzzle master Wes Carroll. He found this one in the Mensa publication Number Puzzles for Math Geniuses by Harold Gale.The Empty TriangleQuestion:Which figure should be placed in the empty triangle?This puzzle works your executive functions in your frontal lobes by using your pattern recognition, hypothesis testing, and logic.Click here to read the Answer and Solution.
Read MoreBill Gates Harvard commencement speech (and his Frontal Lobes)
Bill Gates delivered a very inspiring commencement speech in Harvard last week. I recommend reading the full Remarks of Bill Gates and reflecting on his core message, which may be summarized in its last sentence: “And I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years from now and reflect on what you have…
Read MoreExecutive Function Workout
Here is new brain teaser from puzzle master Wes Carroll. He found this one in the Mensa publication Number Puzzles for Math Geniuses by Harold Gale.
Read MoreExercising Your Lexical Recall and Pattern Recognition
I was sent links to a free online crossword puzzle game and sudoko. While we often talk about the excellent computer-based brain fitness programs available, puzzles can still be good mental exercise … they are just not a complete workout for your whole brain. Word games like crossword puzzles and SCRABBLE® exercise your lexical recall (memory for words that name things), attention, memory, and pattern recognition. They can help maintain your vocabulary and avoid the frustrating tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon that all of us experience from time to time. Sudoko is not a mathematics game in that you don’t actually manipulate the numbers as mathematical entities, but it is a pattern recognition game using symbols (numbers). A very legitimate reason to play casual games is that games can be social and fun — which is good for reducing stress.The drawbacks to puzzles and games is that they are hard to calibrate to ensure increasing challenge, and they generally only exercise a limited number of brain functions.
Read MoreBaby Boomers, Healthy Aging and Job Performance
There has been an interesting discussion about the issues related to the aging of the legal profession. Stephanie introduced us to the article “the Graying Bar: let’s not forget the ethics” by David Giacalone. In short: statistics about the increasing ratio of lawyers over 70 in active practice, on the one hand, and the general…
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