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Three quick brain teaser games to test your perceptual and cognitive skills

February 14, 2020 by Dr. Pascale Michelon

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?

baby illusion test

[Read more…] about Three quick brain teas­er games to test your per­cep­tu­al and cog­ni­tive skills

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Brain Teasers, brain teasers for adults, brain teasers for teens, brain-teaser-games, cognitive-skills, Ebbinghaus Illusion, Hermann Grid illusion, perceptual-skills

Footballers add novelty, variety and challenge to sharpen cognitive and perceptual skills

April 14, 2016 by SharpBrains

soccer_ballCan 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 more…] about Foot­ballers add nov­el­ty, vari­ety and chal­lenge to sharp­en cog­ni­tive and per­cep­tu­al skills

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Filed Under: Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain, Brain-Training, cognitive-skills, football, Learning, Life Kinetik, perceptual-skills, reaction speed, soccer

The Brain Grows With Practice…and Then Shrinks Back to Normal.

May 24, 2011 by Dr. Pascale Michelon

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 brain mas­ters a new skill, some brain areas do get big­ger but even­tu­al­ly shrink back to nor­mal! The per­for­mance gain acquired through prac­tice stays present, in spite of the shrinkage.

Study­ing the audi­to­ry cor­tex of rats, they found that the expan­sion of a ‘skill-spe­cif­ic’ brain area with train­ing is only short lived, even when changes in abil­i­ty are long lasting.

So what does change? Although new­ly learned per­cep­tu­al skills don’t show up in a bird’s eye view of the cor­tex, they must have some neu­ro­bi­o­log­i­cal basis. Kil­gard sug­gests that learn­ing prob­a­bly results from a few par­si­mo­nious tweaks at a more micro­scop­ic lev­el, [Read more…] about The Brain Grows With Practice…and Then Shrinks Back to Normal.

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Brain-Training, brain-volume-growth, Neurogenesis, neuroplasticity, perceptual-skills

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