Brain Games: Attention Challenge

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 30, 2008 |

(hat tip: Mind Hacks). Please try this exper­i­ment, con­ceived by Simons and Chabris for their now clas­sic study, and now pack­aged in a nicer video pro­duc­tion. You will watch a brief video clip show­ing two teams, and your chal­lenge is to count the TOTAL num­ber of times that the bas­ket­balls change hands. Click Here to…

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Brain Health and The way we age now

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 25, 2007 |

The New Yorker April 30th issue includes a superb arti­cle on The Way We Age Now: Can med­i­cine serve an aging pop­u­la­tion?. Atul Gawande pro­vides a great (and a bit depress­ing) sur­vey on the geri­atrics field: more and more need for prac­ti­tion­ers, with less and less sup­ply. now, a cou­ple of quotes and data points that are very rel­e­vant to…

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