09/09/2009 - 2:30pm

BBC Conducting Largest Ever Test of Brain Training

The BBC will be launching an experiment designed by Prof.  Clive Ballard of Kings College, London and the director of research at the UK Alzheimer’s Society and Dr. Adrian Owen of the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Cambridge, to test whether brain training actually works.

08/27/2009 - 9:09am

Multitasking and Multitaskers- More Means Less

Today it seems to be the norm to be multi tasking- doing more than one thing at a time. We get more and more information from different sources, which we are expected to process and handle.
 
Multitasking- no matter what form it takes- means that our brains must use their “executive control function” which is associated with the brain’s prefrontal cortex and the parietal cortex.
 

03/09/2009 - 11:24am

Brain Teasers

Test Your Visual Acuity

Read the sentence in the triangle out loud:

If you read A BIRD IN THE BUSH, read it again slowly and you will discover that the word "THE" is repeated twice. The reason you missed it the first time is that your brain often goes into “automatic” mode when you’re reading something, especially if it’s a phrase as familiar as this one. Since you always expect to see only one "THE" in this sentence, that's what your brain tells you, even though it’s not true.

03/08/2009 - 4:17pm

Neuroplasticity Defined

One of the words you may come across when reading about the possibility of reversing age-related cognitive decline is “neuroplasticity.” If you’re interested in understanding brain fitness, it is important to understand exactly what it means.