Posts Tagged ‘self-regulation’
Measure Your Mental Speed and Flexibility with this Interactive Stroop Test
Here is a fun and interactive version of the famous Stroop test. This test is used in neuropsychological evaluations to measure mental speed and flexibility, the hallmarks of executive functions. Performing well on the test requires strong attention and self-regulation. Your job is to name the colors of the words. Do NOT read the words but the…
Read MoreTechnology as the missing link to enable a brain-based model of brain care: interview with Dr. John Docherty
Dr. John Docherty is an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College, Cornell University, Director of Post Graduate Education there, and Chief Medical Officer of Brain Resource. Trained as a clinical research fellow in neuropsychopharmacology at NIMH, he later returned as Chief of the Psychosocial Treatments Research Branch, responsible for all federally supported…
Read MoreDeveloping self-regulation at school
Excellent article in the New York Times on learning, self-regulation and executive fuunctions: The School Issue: Preschool: Can the Right Kinds of Play Teach Self-Control? (New York Times) — “Over the last few years, a new buzz phrase has emerged among scholars and scientists who study early-childhood development, a phrase that sounds more as if it…
Read MoreCan You Outsmart Your Genes? An Interview with Author Richard Nisbett
While the debate over intelligence rages on many fronts, the battle over the importance of heredity rages loudest. It’s easy to see why. If the camp that argues intelligence is 75 to 85 percent genetically determined is correct, then we’re faced with some tough questions about the role of education. If intelligence is improved very…
Read MoreReferences on Cognitive Health/ Brain Fitness
This is a partial list of the literature we reviewed during the research phase of our new book, The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness. We know many friends of SharpBrains are researchers, healthcare professionals, graduate/ Ph.D. students, who want have direct access to the references (perhaps PubMed should promote itself as a never ending source…
Read MoreCognitive News November-December 2008
Here you have several recent articles and developments worthy of attention: 1) Boom times for brain training games (CNN) 2) Navigating the brain fitness landscape: do’s and don’ts (McKnight’s Long Term Care News) 3) USA Hockey and Intelligym (press release) 4) Brain Fitness at New York Public Library (NYPL blog) 5) McDonnell Foundation grant harnesses cognitive science…
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