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Longevity, Conscientiousness and Work

April 19, 2011 by Alvaro Fernandez

There’s an excel­lent arti­cle in the New York Times (Eighty Years Along, a Longevi­ty Study Still Has Ground to Cov­er) about a very wor­thy new book based on a fas­ci­nat­ing series of research stud­ies: The Longevi­ty Project: Sur­pris­ing Dis­cov­er­ies for Health and Long Life from the Land­mark Eight-Decade Study is the book where UC-River­side researchers Howard Fried­man and Leslie Mar­tin draw key lessons from an eight-decade-long Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty Ter­man study of 1,500 people.

Quotes from the article:

- Many assume biol­o­gy is the crit­i­cal fac­tor in longevi­ty. If your par­ents lived to be 85, you prob­a­bly will, too. Not so, Dr. Fried­man said. [Read more…] about Longevi­ty, Con­sci­en­tious­ness and Work

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: challenges, conscientiousness, Howard Friedman, job, Leslie Martin, lifestyles, longevity, longevity project, persistence, prudence, retire, retirement, Stress, transitions, work

Cognitive Enhancement, Aging Baby Boomers, and the Legal Profession

December 20, 2007 by Alvaro Fernandez

A quick note to alert you of two very inter­est­ing, grow­ing, and some­how linked debates:

1) Very insight­ful arti­cle on The Aging of the Baby Boomers: What Does It Mean for the Legal Pro­fes­sion (thank you, Stephanie!). Some quotes:

- “As I pen this arti­cle, it seems as though I’m writ­ing about some­one else the old­er work­er. Age and aging, it seems, are in the eye of the one look­ing back at you in the mir­ror. I have this the­o­ry, espe­cial­ly as it per­tains to men, that when we look in the mir­ror, we still see that 20 year-old stud who can leap tall build­ings. But I know that my ver­ti­cal leap is not what it used to be. The real­i­ty of aging in the legal pro­fes­sion is upon me and those of our generation.”

- “Also, the per­cep­tion of how old is old varies depend­ing on the job or pro­fes­sion. For exam­ple, [Read more…] about Cog­ni­tive Enhance­ment, Aging Baby Boomers, and the Legal Profession

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Aging-Baby-Boomers, brain-enhancing-drugs, Brain-health, cognitive-enhancement, cognitive-interventions, drugs, lawyers, Legal-Profession, Mature, old, retire, retirement

Brain Training with Cognitive Simulations

February 8, 2007 by Alvaro Fernandez

Today we will con­tin­ue our review of the ben­e­fits of brain train­ing for spe­cif­ic occu­pa­tions: in this case, pilots and bas­ket­ball play­ers. The lessons can be rel­e­vant not only for cor­po­rate train­ing but also for edu­ca­tion and brain health & wellness.

To do so, we will select quotes from our inter­view last year with one of the major sci­en­tists in the field of cog­ni­tive sim­u­la­tions, Pro­fes­sor Daniel Gopher. You can read the full inter­view here.

Prof. Gopher pub­lished an award-win­ning arti­cle in 1994, Gopher, D., Weil, M. and Baraket, T. (1994), Trans­fer of skill from a com­put­er game train­er to flight, Human Fac­tors 36, 1–19., that con­sti­tutes a key mile­stone in the cog­ni­tive engi­neer­ing field.

On Cog­ni­tive Train­ing and Cog­ni­tive Simulations

AF: Tell us a bit about your over­all research interests

DG: My main inter­est has been how to expand the lim­its of human atten­tion, infor­ma­tion pro­cess­ing and response capa­bil­i­ties which are crit­i­cal in com­plex, real-time deci­sion-mak­ing, high-demand tasks such as fly­ing a mil­i­tary jet or play­ing pro­fes­sion­al bas­ket­ball. Using a ten­nis anal­o­gy, my goal has been, and is, how to help devel­op many “Wimbledon”-like cham­pi­ons. Each with their own styles, but per­form­ing to their max­i­mum capac­i­ty to suc­ceed in their environments.

What research over the last 15–20 years has shown is that cog­ni­tion, or what we call think­ing and per­for­mance, is real­ly a set of skills that we can train sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly. And that com­put­er-based cog­ni­tive train­ers or “cog­ni­tive sim­u­la­tions” are the most effec­tive and effi­cient way to do so.

This is an impor­tant point, so let me empha­size it. What we have dis­cov­ered is that a key fac­tor for an effec­tive trans­fer from train­ing envi­ron­ment to real­i­ty is that the train­ing pro­gram ensures “Cog­ni­tive Fideli­ty”, this is, it should faith­ful­ly rep­re­sent the men­tal demands that hap­pen in the real world. Tra­di­tion­al approach­es focus instead on [Read more…] about Brain Train­ing with Cog­ni­tive Simulations

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: aging-and-the-brain, Aging-Baby-Boomers, aging-brain-pbs, anxiety, brain, brain-enhancing-drugs, Brain-Training, Brain-Trust-Program, Cognitive-Training, emwave-psr, emwave-stress-relief, Executive-Functions, genetic, Legal-Profession, mckinsey, metabolism, mind, retire, scientist, Serious-Games, smartbrains

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