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Test your cognitive skills with visual brain teasers
Visuospatial skills are used everyday in many ways, ranging from going from one room to another in your house to solving a jigsaw puzzle and navigating in a new city. Let’s take an example. Can you...
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Brain teaser to exercise your cognitive skills: Where do words go?
Words are stored in the temporal lobe of your brain (in green on the cerebral cortex image to the left). But on which brain hemisphere, right or left? As you know, your brain has two sides (two...
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Update: How to hold off Alzheimer’s Disease 8+ Years (even APOE4 carriers)
___ Time for SharpBrains’ June 2014 e-newsletter, featuring a wealth of insights, science reports, upcoming events, and fun brain teasers. First of all, let us highlight what may well become the...
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Brain teaser to test your attentional focus and multi-tasking abilities
How often do you review and comment on a document while talking on the phone with a colleague about an unrelated matter? Or think about your problems at work while helping your child with his...
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Cognitive development across the lifespan (young minds’ edition)
— Cognitive development (great article at Frontiers for Young Minds; a new publication “edited for kids, by kids”): “…The distinction between fluid and crystallized intelligence is important because...
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Brain teasers to help teens and adults test cognitive skills…and cognitive...
— Brain teaser: Please consider Linda, a 31-year-old woman, single and bright. When she was a student, in high school and in college too, she was deeply involved in social justice issues, and also...
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January Update: The Federal Trade Commission orders Focus Education to stop...
. Time for SharpBrains’ January e-newsletter, featuring a wealth of brain health insights, neuroscience research reports, a landmark action by the Federal Trade Commission…and some quick brain...
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Quick brain teasers to test your cognitive skills…and biases
. If you’re looking for some stimulating, quick mental exercise, try these Brain Teasers To Test Your Cognitive Skills…And Your Cognitive Biases over at The Creativity Post. Once you’re done, you may...
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Brain teaser to test your attention and memory: Can you identify Apple’s logo?
. We don’t notice much of what we see: 85 college students tried to draw the Apple logo from memory; 84 failed (Science Daily): “Could you draw the ubiquitous Apple computer logo from memory?…Out of...
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Brain teasers and tips to stay sharp in between jobs (and when you have one too)
. 7 WAYS TO STAY PRODUCTIVE WHEN YOU’RE IN BETWEEN JOBS (Fast Company): “Sure, you didn’t plan on being on permanent vacation, a.k.a. unemployed, but here you are. And believe it or not, this can be a...
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Visual illusions to tease our brains and minds
Why Optical Illusions Like These Make Your Brain Go Haywire (Wired): “University of Bristol researchers discovered this illusion in the early 1970s while looking at the tiled wall of a café. Hence the...
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Brain teaser: How many haircuts do you think happen in America every year?
Google’s infamous brain-teaser interview questions don’t predict performance (Business Insider): “Google built a reputation for asking brain-teaser questions like “How many haircuts do you think...
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Brain teasers for adults to flex two key mental muscles: attention and...
. Looking for some fun, and free, cognitive stimulation this December? Here you have a few quick brain teasers to exercise your attention and your working memory–the ability to keep information...
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Brain fitness tips to improve concentration and memory
. Concentration–or attention– and memory are two crucial mental skills and are directly related. In fact, many memory complaints have nothing to do with the actual ability to remember things: They...
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Update: Brain teasers and brain fitness tips to improve attention and memory...
Dear SharpBrains friend, Time for SharpBrains’ December e-newsletter…and we are honored to announce that the Japanese edition of The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness just became available, and is...
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Top 10 Brain Teaser Games of 2015 For Teens and Adults
These are the 10 brain teasers, games & illusions that SharpBrains readers (primarily adults, but some younger minds too) enjoyed the most in 2015. It is always good to learn more about our brains...
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Resource: Free brain games for children (kid tested, teacher approved)
. Exquisite Minds (a website for gifted and creative children) has curated a fantastic list of Free Brain Games, promising that “These free brain games have been kid tested and teacher approved.” We...
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Brain teaser to test your multi-tasking skills and improve concentration
How often do you review and comment on a document while talking on the phone with a colleague about an unrelated matter? Or think about your problems at work while helping your child with his...
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eNewsletter: Aerobic and mental training, combined, can significantly improve...
. Time for a new edition of SharpBrains’ eNewsletter, covering a range of brain, health and innovation topics. Enjoy! New thinking: What Everyone Should Know About Stress, Brain Health, and Dance...
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Mental rotation exercise to challenge your brain’s parietal lobe over the...
. Mental rotation refers to moving things around in your mind. It is one of the main visuospatial skills we all have…in different degrees, yes. Here’s an example. Please picture in your mind an...
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