Posts Tagged ‘problem-solving’
Cognitive and Emotional Development Through Play
Play is a powerful method of cognitive and emotional development, for children and adults. Here are some idea on how to develop cognitive skills in playful manner.
Read MoreBrain Fitness Newsletter: mid-February Edition
Our January Newsletter received a good deal of feedback from many readers. Based on it, our new approach is to select the top 10 most important articles every other week. Please take a look at this first experiment, and let us know you feedback. (Also, remember that you can subscribe to receive our blog RSS…
Read MoreAre Schools (Cognitively) Nutritive for Children’s Complex Thinking?
Today we host a very stimulating essay on the importance of problem-solving and encouraging complex game-playing for children’s complete “cognitive nutrition”. Enjoy! ——————– Children’s Complex Thinking – By Tom O’Brien and Christine Wallach Pop over to your neighborhood school and visit some classrooms. Is what’s happening cognitively nutritive? That is, does it satisfy present needs…
Read MoreLearning & The Brain: Interview with Robert Sylwester
Dr. Robert Sylwester is an educator of educators, having received multiple awards during his long career as a master communicator of the implications of brain science research for education and learning. He is the author of several books and many journal articles, and member of our Scientific Advisory Board. His most recent book is The…
Read MoreMemory, Cognitive Abilities and Executive Functions
A misconception we encounter often is that “memory” is the only, or most important, “thing” that our brains do. And the only one we need to care for. We have a variety of cognitive abilities, from attention to processing speed to problem-solving to emotional self-regulation to, yes, memory. (And more). Even memory is not one whole…
Read MoreTBI (Traumatic Brain Injury), Iraq and neuropsychology
You probably have seen the news about Bob Woodruff’s own recovery and his articles now to raise awareness about the plight of Iraq veterans.In the article A Firsthand Report on the Wounds of War we learn how “Woodruff, 45, is launching a multimedia campaign that includes appearances Tuesday with Oprah Winfrey and on “Good Morning America,” and the release of a book (“ In an Instant”) written with his wife, Lee, about their ordeal.”“Woodruff’s reporting packs an emotional punch because he is, quite simply, a man who cheated death.… discusses what a great work the military is doing to prevent deaths of injured soldiers in Iraq-with the unintended consequence that rehabilitation services back in the US are completely overwhelmed.Neurophilosopher puts this problem in a wider context with DoD is neglecting troops’ mental health.For a better prespective, this is a quote from our interview with Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg on Cognitive Training, talking about the birth of modern neuropsychology during World War II:“Of course there weren’t advanced neuroimaging techniques those days, so scientists could only speculate about what happened in healthy brains.
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