August 25, 2009 – 8:02 pm
Some time back I wrote about the cognitive skills necessary for safe driving. It’s ever more clear that abilities such as vision, reaction times, attention, judgment and ability to multitask, that is, to focus on more than one task at a time are all essential to our ability to be safe on the road. As [...]
August 24, 2009 – 6:16 pm
The popular executive function game Tower of Hanoi has been widgetized for you! Share it as you will. Have fun!. Before you try to figure out how the Egyptians built the pyramids, try out your problem-solving skills with this game. In this game, you must configure colored rings on a series of pegs in order [...]
August 15, 2009 – 11:52 pm
Did you manage to match the right sports with the right skills? Here are the answers from the prior blog post: Sports Skills Hockey: – Depth perception – Reaction speed Racquetball: – Visual trajectory analysis – Visuo-spatial exploration – Anticipation Rowing: – Team coordination – Planning/strategic skills Hiking: – Visuo-spatial awareness – Depth perception Sailing: [...]
By Dr. Bernard Croisile
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Posted in Attention Skills, Concentration, Executive Functions, Language, Memory, Visual and Spatial Skills
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Tagged Attention Skills, cognitive improvement, executive function skills, Language, Memory, visual-spatial skills
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August 15, 2009 – 3:57 pm
Can you match which cognitive skills are needed for excellence in all sports? For example, in the game of horseshoes, hand-eye coordination and mental focus are critical to a successful game. How about swimming, rowing or tennis? Sports Skills Hockey Horseshoes Racquetball Tai Chi Rowing Hiking Sailing Snooker/Pool Basketball Archery Anticipation Depth perception Concentration Strategic [...]
By Dr. Bernard Croisile
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Posted in Attention Skills, Concentration, Executive Functions, Fitness, Health & Wellness, Memory, Visual and Spatial Skills
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Tagged Attention Skills, Brain Fitness Websites, Brain health, Brain Training, executive function skills, Language Games, Memory Training, visual-spatial skills
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August 11, 2009 – 5:35 pm
You may find this primer about brain development and functioning, created by the Society of Neuroscience quite interesting. They are a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians who study the brain and nervous system and whose mission it to research and educate. The primer is called Brain Facts. It’s written with a non-medical audience in [...]
By Dr. Michel Noir
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Posted in Brain anatomy and imaging, Brain Decline, Brain health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Health & Wellness, Mind/Body, Neurons
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Tagged Add new tag, Brain Research, brain science, brain strength, Brain Training, memory loss, mild cognitive impairment, neural pathways
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Last Saturday, August 1st, the 2009 Summer National Senior Games started in San Francisco. HAPPYneuron was proud to be present with its sponsoring partner Humana. Senior Games, you’re saying? Surely, seniors can be active and do regular exercise but doesn’t the term “games” involve a competition? Are seniors actually able to compete in a sports [...]
By Laura Fay
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Posted in Baby Boomers, Fitness, Health & Wellness, Seniors
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Tagged Baby Boomers, Brain Fitness Websites, Brain Training, Fitness, health and wellness, senior games, senior olympics, Seniors
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A new controlled study using HAPPYneuron exercises has been launched at the prestigious University of Zurich, Institute of Psychology, Switzerland under the supervision of Dr. Anne Echen. The goal of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of episodic memory training consisting of personalized adaptive computer exercises. 40 subjects between the ages of 60 and [...]
By Dr. Bernard Croisile
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Posted in Brain exercises, Brain Research, Brain Training Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Training, memory loss, Seniors
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Tagged Brain Research, brain science, brain stimulation, Brain Training, Cognitive Neuroscience, memory loss
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