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Fun brain teaser to test your cognitive skills during International Brain Teaser Month

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Mem­o­ry relies most­ly on the tem­po­ral lobes (see green area) and also the frontal lobes (red), Temporal lobe Frontal Lobeso those are the areas that will get some good neu­ronal acti­va­tion when read­ers raised in the US try to remem­ber the miss­ing words in the Amer­i­can proverbs below.

Now, if you were raised out­side the US and are not famil­iar with those proverbs you will have to use your rea­son­ing skills more than your mem­o­ry skills — In that case, frontal lobe acti­va­tion will be wider and more intense.

Con­verse­ly, if you were raised in the US you will find the inter­na­tion­al proverbs below to be more chal­leng­ing. You will not be able to remem­ber them, as you prob­a­bly nev­er learned them, but you should be able to fig­ure them out for extra frontal lobe, cog­ni­tive exercise.

Here’s the task: Guess the miss­ing words of each US and inter­na­tion­al proverb below. Get a pen and piece of paper and write your answers before you check the solutions 🙂

Ready, Set, Go! [Read more…] about Fun brain teas­er to test your cog­ni­tive skills dur­ing Inter­na­tion­al Brain Teas­er Month

Five fun brain teasers to thank evolution for our human brains and minds

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To cel­e­brate this quite-chal­leng­ing Thanks­giv­ing, here are five fun brain teasers and games that read­ers have enjoyed the most this year so far. It is always good to learn more about (and appre­ci­ate) that most pre­cious resource we all (yes, all) have up there!

#1. First of all, these days it’s always impor­tant to test your stress level

#2. You say you know the col­ors? Try the Stroop Test

#3. Check out this clas­sic atten­tion experiment

#4. What do you know about men­tal self-rota­tion?

#5. Last but not least, here are ten clas­sic illu­sions to tease your mind.

 

Thank you in advance for try­ing them, enjoy­ing them, and shar­ing them 🙂

 

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Five quick brain teasers to flex those Attention and Working Memory mental muscles

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Look­ing for some fun cog­ni­tive stim­u­la­tion to kick­start the week?

Below you’ll find a few brain teasers to chal­lenge your atten­tion and your work­ing mem­ory–the abil­ity to keep infor­ma­tion in your mind while manip­u­lat­ing mul­ti­ple units of infor­ma­tion at the same time.

Give them a try … they are not as easy as they may sound 🙂 [Read more…] about Five quick brain teasers to flex those Atten­tion and Work­ing Mem­o­ry men­tal muscles

Brain teaser to stimulate your mental imagery, spatial rotation … and appetite

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Here’s a fun puz­zle that a friend shared over zoom a few days ago.

Chal­lenge: How can you cut a cake into eight equal pieces with only three cuts?

Note: The cake in the puz­zle is not nec­es­sar­i­ly the one pic­tured above 🙂 Imag­ine your own cake.

Check the answer below only after you’ve tried… [Read more…] about Brain teas­er to stim­u­late your men­tal imagery, spa­tial rota­tion … and appetite

Tease your brain with these eight fun riddles

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Q: My first thought after con­grat­u­lat­ing myself on being so clever about something?
A: “How can I have been so dumb about that for so long!”

Q: Who is hard­er to for­give than any­one, for tru­ly dumb behaviour?
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Seven fun brain teasers to honor our unique Brains and Minds during Brain Awareness Week 2020

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Let’s cel­e­brate Brain Aware­ness Week next week, March 16–22nd, by chal­leng­ing our minds safe­ly at home or at a san­i­tized office with one brain teas­er per day or, why not, try­ing them all at once 🙂

Here’s a selec­tion of sev­en fun brain teasers, puz­zles & games that Sharp­Brains read­ers (pri­mar­i­ly adults, but younger minds too) have enjoyed the most since 2010.

 

Ready. Set. Go!

On Monday, #1:

Test your stress lev­el and see if you’re in the right men­tal state for the busy week. And here are some tips to han­dle stress bet­ter if you need to after tak­ing the test …

On Tuesday, #2:

Tell us, which way is the bus head­ing?

On Wednesday, #3:

Explore your per­cep­tu­al biases

On Thursday, #4:

Think out­side the box with a few fun riddles

On Friday, #5:

Please con­sid­er Lin­da’s job prospects

On Saturday, #6:

Com­plete these proverbs and exer­cise your mem­o­ry and reasoning

On Sunday, #7:

Hmm. Where do words go?

 

Stay Healthy, Mind­ful and Vig­i­lant until this health cri­sis is over, please.

 

About Brain Awareness Week:

Every March, Brain Aware­ness Week (BAW) unites the efforts of part­ner orga­ni­za­tions world­wide in a cel­e­bra­tion of the brain for peo­ple of all ages. Activ­i­ties are lim­it­ed only by the orga­niz­ers’ imag­i­na­tions and include open days at neu­ro­science labs; exhi­bi­tions about the brain; lec­tures on brain-relat­ed top­ics; social media cam­paigns; dis­plays at libraries and com­mu­ni­ty cen­ters; class­room work­shops; and more.

This year BAW will take place March 16–22th, 2020.

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