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Notre cerveau à l’heure des nouvelles lectures. Maryanne Wolf, directrice du Centre de recherche sur la lecture et le langage de l’université Tufts est l’auteur de Proust et le Calmar (en référence à la façon dont ces animaux développent leurs réseaux de neurones, que nous avions déjà évoqué en 2009).

Notre cerveau à l’heure des nouvelles lectures

Sur la scène des Entretiens du Nouveau Monde industriel au Centre Pompidou, la spécialiste dans le développement de l’enfant est venue évoquer « la modification de notre cerveau-lecteur au 21e siècle » (voir et écouter la vidéo de son intervention)… Image : Maryanne Wolf face au public sur la scène du Centre Pompidou, photographiée par Victor Feuillat. Comment lisons-nous ? « Le cerveau humain n’était pas programmé pour être capable de lire. Mind-Boggling Results From Brain-Training Games Study.

Increase Brain Power and Climb the Corporate Ladder. Font size Email a Friend Print Do you ever feel like you can't quite keep up with your job?

Increase Brain Power and Climb the Corporate Ladder

Like if you could just concentrate a little harder and bring thing into focus, you could organize the demands on your time better and maybe impress the boss enough to get that raise you need, or even a promotion? If only there were a mental fitness program that could improve your brain fitness as much as an exercise program can improve your physical fitness, maybe you could catch the boss' attention and start ascending the corporate ladder and reaching the work goals you've set for yourself.

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ActivBrain articles biz and programs. Active Reading Strategies, Mind Tools Reading Techniques. Reading Efficiently by Reading Intelligently Get the most from your reading. © iStockphoto/mammamaart Whether they're project documents, trade journals, blogs, business books or ebooks, most of us read regularly as part of our jobs, and to develop our skills and knowledge.

Active Reading Strategies, Mind Tools Reading Techniques

But do you ever read what should be a useful document, yet fail to gain any helpful information from it? Or, do you have to re-read something several times to get a full understanding of the content? In this article, we're looking at strategies that will help you read more effectively. Think About What You Want to Know Before you start reading anything, ask yourself why you're reading it.

Once you know your purpose, you can examine the resource to see whether it's going to help you. For example, with a book, an easy way of doing this is to look at the introduction and the chapter headings. Ask yourself whether the resource meets your needs, and try to work out if it will give you the right amount of knowledge. Génération amnésique ? 09 juin 2008 - Sommes-nous en train de perdre la mémoire ?

Génération amnésique ?

En tout cas, les produits et les services censés stimuler l’activité cérébrale se multiplient. Les chiffres parlent d’eux-mêmes. 5 millions d’unités du programme d’entraînement cérébral du Docteur Kawashima, ont été vendues en Europe par Nintendo en 2007, dont un million en Grande-Bretagne. Dans ce pays, seul FIFA 2008 a réussi à battre le Docteur Kawashima ! Après les 6 millions écoulés au Japon, c’est une belle réussite. Pour y voir plus clair, Global Life Stages, l’étude sur les modes de vie et de consommation dans le monde que vient de mener Ipsos Marketing, tente de répondre aux questions suivantes : Combien de gens sont concernés ? Premier enseignement : la proportion de gens concernés par ces problèmes, sans être majoritaire, n’est pas négligeable.

On comprend mieux dans ce contexte la multiplication des offres qui leur sont destinées. Cliquez pour visualiser. Link Between Physical Fitness and IQ. By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor Reviewed by John M.

Link Between Physical Fitness and IQ

Grohol, Psy.D. on December 3, 2009 A new Swedish study finds that young adults who are fit have a higher IQ and are more likely to go on to college. As Sweden has a mandatory military commitment, investigators evaluated information on 1.2 million Swedish men who were born between 1950 and 1976. Being fit linked to higher IQ in young adults. Dakim BrainFitness Adopted by Arizona State Veteran Home. SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Dakim, Inc. announced today that Phoenix's Arizona State Veteran Home (ASVH), a 200-bed facility that serves the long-term care and rehabilitative needs of the military veterans of Arizona, has adopted the Dakim® BrainFitness™ System to provide residents with daily cognitive stimulation.

Dakim BrainFitness Adopted by Arizona State Veteran Home

Dakim's entertaining touch screen-based system is designed both for dementia prevention and for stroke and traumatic brain injury (TBI) rehabilitation. ASVH is a Medicare-certified skilled nursing facility for physically and cognitively impaired veterans that is owned and operated by the state of Arizona. The facility installed the Dakim unit in October to enhance its therapeutic programming, drawn both by Dakim's fun-to-play multimedia brain games and a self-service touch-activated design that significantly reduces the need for caregiver assistance and associated costs. Fresh Therapeutic Outlet Self-Adjusting Brain Workouts About Dakim, Inc. SOURCE Dakim, Inc. CogniFit Puts Ball in Motion, Aiming to Help NFL Alumni Improve.