A host of serious neuroscientists and credentialed observers have weighed in recently on the topic of brain plasticity, the notion that The Mind can (physically) change The Brain. Faced with so much on my to-do list, naturally, my response is to plunge into a long-form essay on a completely unrelated topic like neuroplasticity. Unfortunately (or maybe, fortunately), my copy of ‘Train your mind, change your brain‘ by the WSJ’s science columnist Sharon Begley is buried somewhere under the physical inbox stack, and I’ve yet to pick up a copy of Norman Doidge’s The Brain That Changes Itself. Maybe next month…
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Humans are programmed to censor themselves. If 1000 blogs said buy real estate in Bakersfield, who would ever question them?
Hello, Realty Office? This is Gulker – buy big in Bakersfield… what’s that? Yeah, Bakersfield. Says so right here on Technorati…
Well, if you ever do get around to that essay, you should take a look at the research performed by Susanne Jaeggi and Martin Buschkuehl – Improving Fluid Intelligence by Training Working Memory (PNAS April 2008) — they recorded increases in mental agility (fluid intelligence) of more than 40% in less than 20 days with the right kind of brain training.
I was so impressed that I developed a commercial software program using the same method.
Mind Sparke Brain Fitness Pro
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