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December 12, 2007 at 8:44 pm · Filed under Brain games, Brain teasers, Brain Training, Mind Games, Pattern Recognition, Visual Illusion ·Tagged attention, brain, Brain games, Brain teasers, illusions, logic, memory, Mind Games, puzzles, Stress, the brain
It is always good to stimulate our minds and to learn a bit about how our brain works. Here you have a selection of the 50 Brain Teasers and Games that people have enjoyed the most in our brain fitness blog and speaking engagements.
Fun experiments on how our brains work
1. Do you think you know the colors?: try the Stroop Test.
2. Can you count?: Basketball attention experiment (Interactive).
3. Who is this?: A very important little guy (Interactive).
4. How is this possible?.
5. Take the Senses Challenge (Interactive). Read the rest of this entry »
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February 28, 2007 at 5:52 pm · Filed under ACE, Aging, Attention and ADD/ ADHD, Biofeedback, Biology, Books, Brain anatomy and imaging, Brain Coach, Brain exercises, Brain Fitness, Brain games, Brain health, Brain teasers, Brain Training, Brain-based Learning, Casual Games, Cogmed, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Training, Corporate Training, Decision-making, Education, Emotions, Events, Executive Functions, Freeze-Framer, Glossary, HappyNeuron, Health & Wellness, HeartMath, IntelliGym, Leadership, Learning, Lifelong learning, meditation, Memory Training, Mental flexibility, Mental Health, Microfinance, Mind Fitness, Mind Games, Mind/Body, MindFit, Neurofinance, Neurogenesis, Neurons, Neuropsychology, Neuroscience Interview Series, Neurotechnology, Nintendo Brain, Nutrition, Pattern Recognition, Peak Performance, Philanthropy, Physical Fitness, Posit Science, Positive Psychology, Resiliency, RoboMemo, Self-regulation, Serious Games, Social Entrepreneurship, Stress, Trading psychology, Uncategorized, Vigorous Mind, Visual Illusion, Women's Health, Working memory
Hello dear readers: after a transition period, we have definitively moved to http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog
Please visit us there if you want to keep reading our (close to) daily articles. Please update your feed, and any technorati/ stumbleupon/ del.ic.ious account you may have pointing at this old address. Our new location:
http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog
We won’t be posting more articles here.
We’ll see you there!
-Caroline & Alvaro
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January 1, 2007 at 1:17 pm · Filed under Attention and ADD/ ADHD, Biofeedback, Biology, Books, Brain anatomy and imaging, Brain exercises, Brain Fitness, Brain games, Brain health, Brain teasers, Brain Training, Brain-based Learning, Casual Games, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Training, Corporate Training, Decision-making, Education, Emotions, Events, Executive Functions, Glossary, Health & Wellness, Leadership, Learning, Lifelong learning, meditation, Memory Training, Mental flexibility, Mental Health, Microfinance, Mind Fitness, Mind Games, Mind/Body, Neurofinance, Neurogenesis, Neurons, Neuropsychology, Neuroscience Interview Series, Neurotechnology, Nintendo Brain, Nutrition, Pattern Recognition, Peak Performance, Philanthropy, Physical Fitness, Positive Psychology, Resiliency, Self-regulation, Serious Games, Social Entrepreneurship, Stress, Trading psychology, Uncategorized, Visual Illusion, Women's Health, Working memory
Happy 2007 to everyone!
We have just formulated our New Year Resolution: make 2007 the year when Brain Fitness became a mainstream concept.
How do we start? well, let’s announce the launch of the Carnival of Brain Fitness (a Blog Carnival is basically the vehicle that blogs use to share posts around specific topics).
Goal: to facilitate a dialogue about this emerging field across multiple perspectives, from scientists and health professionals, to education and training ones, to basically everyone who has conducted an experiment on his on her brain and mind, and has news to report.
Context: The scientific foundations lie in neurogenesis, neuroplasticity, cognitive training and stress management. Medical and health applications range from stroke and TBI rehabilitation to ADD/ADHD and early Alzheimer’s to Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and cognitive therapy. Educational and training applications go from helping kids improve reading abilities to helping manage stress and anxiety – including work with the “mental game” in sports and high-demand activities pr professions. Each of us may also have experiences to report, where we saw first hand, no matter our age, our innate ability to refine and transform ourselves (and our brains).
Mechanics: If you’d like to contribute,
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December 24, 2006 at 5:57 pm · Filed under Brain anatomy and imaging, Brain exercises, Brain games, Brain teasers, Brain Training, Casual Games, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Training, Mind Fitness, Mind Games, Pattern Recognition, Visual Illusion
How many colors do you see in this image?
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December 1, 2006 at 8:27 am · Filed under Brain exercises, Brain games, Brain teasers, Brain Training, Brain-based Learning, Casual Games, Mental flexibility, Mind Games, Pattern Recognition, Visual Illusion
No matter what we are reading or doing, there is always the need to take a little break and challenge our minds (and to learn a bit about how our brains work). Here you have a selection of the 10 Brain Teasers that people have enjoyed most in this site.
1. Do you think you know the colors?: the Stroop Test
2. Can you count?: Basketball attention experiment
3. Planning is not that easy: Towers of Hanoi
4. Interactive visual illusion: the Muller-Lyer Illusion
5. Who is this?: A very important little guy
5. How many…: Train your Frontal and Parietal lobes
6. What’s the missing number: Pattern Recognition Brain Teaser
7. Who’s the eldest?: Reasoning Skills Brain Teaser
8. Brain Puzzle for the Whole Brain: The Blind Beggar
9. Is a circle a circle?: Visual Perception Brain Teaser
10. How is this possible?
Which one do you enjoy the most? did you notice the extra one?
These are brain teasers. If you care for Brain Fitness Programs, check out MindFit for an overall mental workout, IntelliGym for basketball game-intelligence, RoboMemo for working memory training, Freeze-Framer for stress management and peak performance.
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November 25, 2006 at 1:33 am · Filed under Attention and ADD/ ADHD, Brain anatomy and imaging, Brain exercises, Brain Fitness, Brain games, Brain health, Brain teasers, Brain Training, Brain-based Learning, Casual Games, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Training, Corporate Training, Decision-making, Education, Emotions, Executive Functions, Health & Wellness, Leadership, Learning, Lifelong learning, meditation, Memory Training, Mental flexibility, Mental Health, Mind Fitness, Mind Games, Mind/Body, Neurofinance, Neurogenesis, Neurons, Neuropsychology, Neuroscience Interview Series, Neurotechnology, Nintendo Brain, Nutrition, Pattern Recognition, Physical Fitness, Positive Psychology, Resiliency, Serious Games, Stress, Visual Illusion, Working memory
We moved to a new location.
Please update your bookmarks and links to our new location at:
http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog
We’ll see you there!
-Caroline & Alvaro
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November 5, 2006 at 6:34 pm · Filed under Biology, Brain anatomy and imaging, Brain health, Brain teasers, Brain-based Learning, Cognitive Neuroscience, Learning, Lifelong learning, Mental Health, Neuropsychology, Visual Illusion
We are big fans of Scientific American, especially their Scientific American Mind publication.
They also publish special collections of updated articles around specific topics-over the weekend I have been enjoying one of their best ones, “Secrets of the Senses”, with a great blend of good content and fun brain teasers.
Enjoy! Read the rest of this entry »
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November 2, 2006 at 11:00 pm · Filed under Brain anatomy and imaging, Brain exercises, Brain games, Brain teasers, Cognitive Neuroscience, Mind Games, Visual Illusion
What do you see?
Keep looking at it …
Hint:
You should be able to perceive two different images.
Brain Science:
This image is an example of an ambiguous illusion — a picture or object that requires perceptual switching between the alternative interpretations of figure and ground. And although you may be able to switch back and forth to see one image or the other, your eyes will not let you see both at the same time.
(For bloggers: we have moved to a new home, at www.sharpbrains.com/blog . If you like this post, please link to its new URL: http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2006/10/28/visual-brain-teaser/. Thanks!).
Our visual perception is created by our brain’s interpretation in the cerebral cortex of visual information entering through the visual pathway. And sometimes our minds get too involved in interpreting the perceptual input, rather than passively recording it, and make mistakes, otherwise known as “optical illusions”.
Click on “Continue Reading” for the answer …
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