Posts Tagged ‘perceptual-skills’
Three quick brain teaser games to test your perceptual and cognitive skills
An always delightful way to learn more about our brains and minds is to experience so-called optical illusions and to see how we react to them. Below you have three fun ones to tease, and probably even puzzle, you mind. Ready, set, go! 1. Where is that couple’s baby?
Read MoreFootballers add novelty, variety and challenge to sharpen cognitive and perceptual skills
Can brain training make better footballers? (The Guardian): “It sounds like a game designed for toddlers – throwing and catching a ball to encourage talking – but, according to coaches at Southampton FC, brain-training technique Life Kinetik is the latest weapon in the war to stop modern life ruining the beautiful game
Read MoreThe Brain Grows With Practice…and Then Shrinks Back to Normal.
If you practice biceps curls at the gym, you will get bigger muscles that are also stronger. So far, the same seemed true for the brain. Thanks to neuroplasticity, practice triggers neuronal and synaptic growth (i.e., brain volume growth), which correlates with better performance. In this fascinating Scientific American article we learn that as the…
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