5 quick brain teasers to sharpen two key cognitive skills: attention and working memory

By Caroline Latham | March 31, 2017

Look­ing for some fun–and free–cognitive stim­u­la­tion over the week­end? Here you have a few quick brain teasers to chal­lenge your atten­tion and your work­ing mem­ory (work­ing mem­ory is the capac­i­ty to keep infor­ma­tion in your mind while work­ing on pro­cess­ing and inte­grat­ing it) Please give them a try…they are not as easy as they may seem :-)

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Update: Ten Common Myths About Brain Health, Debunked

By SharpBrains | March 29, 2016

—– Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ eNewslet­ter, full of stim­u­lat­ing arti­cles and teasers. Hap­py Read­ing :-) New think­ing: Let’s debunk ten brain myths that remain sur­pris­ing­ly pop­u­lar DARPA launch­es Tar­get­ed Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty Train­ing pro­gram to accel­er­ate cog­ni­tive skills train­ing Under new CEO, Lumos­i­ty to expand brain train­ing plat­form with focus on applied skills and broad­er social, wellness…

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