Musical training as mental exercise for cognitive performance

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 7, 2008 |

We often hear (glad­ly!) how teach­ers use our blog arti­cles and brain teasers in their class­es. We also hear how many psy­chol­o­gy and biol­o­gy teach­ers are get­ting their stu­dents excit­ed about brain research, and, to con­tribute to their efforts, we like to rec­og­nize some great ini­tia­tives. Last year, Jef­frey Gonce, a Psy­chol­o­gy teacher at Red…

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MindFit, Posit Science, Happy Neuron

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 20, 2007 |

The Seat­tle Times has a good brief arti­cle today on Posit Sci­ence, Hap­py Neu­ron Games and us (they men­tion Mind­Fit Brain Work­out to “work on short-term mem­o­ry, nam­ing, divid­ed atten­tion, plan­ning, hand-eye coor­di­na­tion and oth­er cog­ni­tive mea­sures.”). Check Is your brain ready for the chal­lenge? ——— For the record (giv­en a read­er’s com­ment below I…

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