Archive for November, 2018

What will neurotechnology look like in 10-20 years?

November 13, 2018 at 9:39 am · Filed under Brain health, Cognitive Neuroscience ·Tagged , , , , ,

Credit: University of Nottingham

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Will it be about a new generation of portable brain scanners that can significantly lower the price of research, like the one being developed by researchers at the University of Nottingham and University College London in the UK?

Or will it be about sophisticated neural interfaces, like the ones the US military is working on, to change the ways our minds interact with the world around us?

Or, perhaps, will it be about inexpensive, data-rich approaches to detect patterns in your smartphone usage and detect mental health and brain disorders in their early stages — such as what MindStrong Health, NeuraMetrix and others are already doing?

–> Continue reading We need to rethink neuroscience. And you can help us, over at the World Economic Forum.

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Brain teaser to exercise those temporal lobes

November 5, 2018 at 7:24 am · Filed under Brain exercises, Brain Fitness, Uncategorized ·Tagged , , , ,

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Language is processed in the temporal lobes, on the sides of your brain, next to you temples.

Different areas in the temporal lobes (mostly on the left side) deal with different aspects of language. For instance, the Wernicke area supports your ability to understand words. The Broca area, on the other hand, is the one that allows you to produce language or articulate words.

Let’s try a fun brain teaser to help exercise your brain’s language areas…are you ready to stimulate all those neurons in your temporal lobes?

Read each definition and try to find the corresponding word.

(Answers are below, but don’t check them until you have tried!)

Tease your brain:

_________________ = A plant having a permanently woody main stem, usually growing to a high height, and developing branches at some distance from the ground.

_________________ = A large, usually tawny-yellow cat, native to Africa and southern Asia, having a tufted tail.

_________________ = The nutritious, orange to yellow root of a plant of the parsley family.

_________________ = An article of furniture consisting of a flat top supported on one or more legs.

_________________ = An institution where instruction is given.

_________________ = A moving cage for carrying passengers from one level to another.

_________________ = A device for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point

_________________ = a body of water of considerable size, surrounded by land.

_________________ = A domestic fowl bred for its flesh, eggs, and feathers.

_________________ = A shallow, usually circular dish from which food is eaten.

_________________ = A precipitation in the form of ice crystals.

_________________ = Any circulating medium of exchange

 

 

Answers

Tree
Lion
Carrot
Table
School
Elevator
Telephone
Lake
Chicken
Plate
Snow
Money

 

For more cognitive stimulation, visit these Top 25 Brain Teasers for Teens and Adults, and explore What are Cognitive Abilities and Skills, and How to Boost Them?

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