Posts Tagged ‘scientist’
Cognitive Training for Basketball Game-Intelligence: Interview with Prof. Daniel Gopher
Professor Daniel Gopher is a fellow of the U.S. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the International Ergonomics Association, Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Human Factors Engineering at Technion, Israel’s Institute of Science, and one of world’s leading figures in the field of Cognitive Training. During his 40 year career, he has held a variety…
Read MoreBrain Fitness Programs, “Brain Gyms”…Explained
Thanks to MindHacks for the link to a good Washington Post article, “Pumping Neurons”. A couple of quotes: Recent research shows that the brain remains plastic, or basically trainable, throughout life. In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2002, significant percentages of the 2,802 participants age 65 and older…
Read MoreBrain Fitness, Cultivating Cognition, and Brain Science
Chris Chatman writes a good introduction to what we do, in his entry Cultivating Cognition: the “Brain Fitness” Movement. I really enjoy his use of the word “cultivating”, since we want to help inspire a cultural change that places nurturing, exercising, cultivating, our brains and minds at the same level as exercising and training our…
Read MoreThe Brain Fitness Revolution is here with us
Roger Dooley, author of the Neuromarketing blog, wrote in April an excellent overview of the Brain Fitness field in the FutureLab blog. Enjoy his entry Marketing Neuroscience: Brain Fitness. Let me quote a couple of sentences: “The two big driving forces for the brain fitness movement are demographics, particularly the aging baby boom population, and…
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