Colour theory explained. Your Brain on E-Books and Smartphone Apps. Michael Appleton for The New York Times Last week, my brain played a cruel trick on me.
While waiting for my flight to take off, I was reading The New Yorker, the paper version, of course — I know the rules. I became engrossed in an article and swiped my finger down the glossy page to read more. To my surprise, nothing happened. I swiped it again. Why We Keep Getting the Same Old Ideas. 0Share Synopsis When you change your thinking patterns, your brain makes new connections which give you different things to focus on and different ways to interpret what you are focusing on.
Read the following: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabridge Uinvervtisy, it deosnt mttaer in waht oredr the litteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a ttoal mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Amazing, isn't it? 25 Amazing Facts About the Brain. Creatividad con las posturas durante la siesta // Creativity with nap positions (by Adele Enersen) Adele Enersen es una madre y artista que usa su creatividad tomando fotos de las siestas de su hijo con su iPhone y luego dibuja rápidamente sus “actividades” sobre la foto.
Adele Enersen is a mother and artist who uses her creativity snapping pictures of his son’s naps with her iPhone and then quickly sketching his “activities” onto the photo. (via: Seeing green might make your workout better. Workout Nov. 15, 2012 at 3:25 PM ET By Lindsey Konkel MyHealthNewsDaily Working out in the great outdoors may produce more psychological benefits than hitting the gym, suggest researchers who say that "green exercise" may boost mood, self-esteem, motivation and enjoyment.
But according to a new study, the positive effects of green exercise may have more to do with the color green than with being surrounded by nature. Whole Brain Thinking Resources. Visual Mapping. Well-connected brains make you smarter in older age. Brains that maintain healthy nerve connections as we age help keep us sharp in later life, new research funded by the charity Age UK has found.
Older people with robust brain 'wiring' – that is, the nerve fibres that connect different, distant brain areas – can process information quickly and that this makes them generally smarter, the study suggests. According to the findings, joining distant parts of the brain together with better wiring improves mental performance, suggesting that intelligence is not found in a single part of the brain. However a loss of condition of this wiring or 'white matter' – the billions of nerve fibres that transmit signals around the brain – can negatively affect our intelligence by altering these networks and slowing down our processing speed.
The research by the University of Edinburgh shows for the first time that the deterioration of white matter with age is likely to be a significant cause of age-related cognitive decline. Songs from the heart: Neuroscience project aims to translate emotional impulses directly into music. In a picture taken on August 8, 2012, researcher Vaughan Macefield (L) triggers nerve impulses from actor Ben Schultz (R) during an experiment at the University of Western Sydney (UWS).
Do humans really wear their hearts on their sleeve? An ambitious Australian neuroscience project aiming to translate emotional impulses directly into music is hoping to find out. Canadian artist Erin Gee describes it as "human voices in electronic bodies", and there is a definite futuristic feel to her collaboration with the University of Western Sydney's medical school. A fingerprint scan is required to gain entry to the labs where her first subject, Ben Schultz, 27, is strapped to a bed, connected via a complex maze of wires to monitors not unlike those seen in a hospital. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Motivating People to Learn. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ph.D., psychologist and author of the book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, describes what schools and parents can do to promote optimal learning experiences. 1.
What's the best way to motivate people to learn? Generally, we are motivated by two different reasons. We either do some things for what we call extrinsic reasons. Namely, you work for forty hours a week so you can get a paycheck at the end. Now, flow is a type of intrinsic motivation, that is, there you do what you're doing primarily because you like what you're doing. Back to top 2. The flow experience is when a person is completely involved in what he or she is doing, when the concentration is very high, when the person knows moment by moment what the next steps should be, like if you are playing tennis, you know where you want the ball to go, if you are playing a musical instrument you know what notes you want to play, every millisecond, almost.
Be More Optimistic. Here's Why. Whenever I post about the impact of beliefs on lives and careers, I tend to get at least one comment contrasting "optimism" and "realism. " That's an odd comparison to make, because they're actually the exact same thing.