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“I am excited”: Making Stress Work for You, Instead of Against You
Image: The Yerkes-Dodson Law (YDL)
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How much stress is good for you?
In 1908, Robert Mearns Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson designed an experiment that would begin to tackle the question, “How much stress is good for you?”
The researchers tracked mice to see how stress would affect their ability to learn. Simple—yet painful, because how do you stress out mice? You shock them. The researchers set up two corridors to choose from—one painted white and the other black—and if a mouse went down the black corridor, ZAP! Yerkes and Dodson observed that given too mild a shock, the mice just shrugged it off and kept ...
Source: SharpBrains - April 17, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dan Lerner & Dr. Alan Schlechter Tags: Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness Peak Performance Professional Development ability ability to learn alertness anxiety mind physiology Stress work Yerkes-Dodson Law Source Type: blogs
Understanding other brains
Alan Towers wrote an instructive, poignant comment about the difficulty that he had understanding that his schizophrenic son could not be EXPECTED to “make sense”, if sense was defined by the standards that applied for Alan, or for the wider society. Because so many people who live with psychotic illness or substantial neurological impairment require that their affected loved ones operate by THEIR rules and THEIR logical constructs and world view, they often abandon their children, relatives and friends as uncorrectible and irrecoverable, as lost souls.
I’ve had a conversation about this subject with a nu...
Source: On the Brain by Dr. Michael Merzenich, Ph.D. - April 1, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. Merzenich Tags: Aging and the Brain Alzheimer’s Autism Origins, Treatments Brain Fitness BrainHQ Cognitive Impairment in Children Cognitive impairments Posit Science Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, et alia Source Type: blogs
Imagine These Experiments in Aphantasia
When you hear the word “apple”, do you picture a Red Delicious apple or a green Granny Smith? Or neither, because you can't conjure up a visual image of an apple (or of anything else, for that matter)? Aphantasia is the inability to generate visual images, which can be a congenital condition or acquired after brain injury (Farah, 1984). The most striking aspect of this variation in mental life is that those of us with imagery assume that everyone else has it, while those without are flabbergasted when they learn that other people can “see” pictures in their head.Programming prodigy Blake Ross created a sensation re...
Source: The Neurocritic - May 3, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Tease your mind this weekend with these brainy haikus …and please add yours
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Thank you to everyone who has written so many fun haikus over the last several years (following the post Top 25 Brain and Mind Haikus. Yours?). These are the ones we have enjoyed the most.
Kathy:
My release technique,
Forgive, forget, love all,
Meditate on that!
GTB:
Haiku’s are easy
But sometimes they don’t make sense
Refrigerator
Alan:
Through the microscope,
slice of brain stains pink and blue,
the wonder of thought.
Amit:
Love, college, career.
A new world of transitions.
Will I survive? Yes.
Justin:
Justin the genieus
Must spell check the word genius
to post this Haiku
Stacey:
I thought is was fu...
Source: SharpBrains - July 29, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Alvaro Fernandez Tags: Brain Teasers Education & Lifelong Learning brain-teaser brainy cognitive haiku tease your brain Source Type: blogs
Scientific Study Shows Mediums Are Wrong 46.2% of the Time
Not a very good showing, eh?Here ' s our latest study on mediumship: " Prediction of Mortality Based on Facial Characteristics " . Available here:https://t.co/jVMHmF07Dj— Dean Radin (@DeanRadin)May 21, 2016In the study,“Participants were asked to press a button if they thought the person in a photo was living or deceased. Overall mean accuracy on this task was 53.8%, where 50% was expected by chance (p< 0.004, two-tail). Statistically significant accuracy was independently obtained in 5 of the 12 participants. ”The abstract claims the participants showed better than chance performance, but even if we accept this l...
Source: The Neurocritic - August 7, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Neurocognitive ability EEG measurement method and system: Key Neurotech Patent #8
– Illustrative image from U.S. Patent No. 6,434,419
Today we are sharing a 2002 patent assigned to Sam Technology, Inc.
U.S. Patent No. 6,434,419: Neurocognitive ability EEG measurement method and system
Assignee(s): Sam Technology, Inc.
Inventor(s): Alan S. Gevins, Michael E. Smith
Technology Category: EEG
Issue Date: August 13, 2002
SharpBrains’ Take:
The ‘419 patent describes systems with the objective of measuring cognitive ability through EEG signal detection and analysis, such that capabilities can be objectively measured in a manner that does not suffer from drawbacks associated with other cognitive assessme...
Source: SharpBrains - February 8, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology brain data EEG EEG measurement EEG measurement system neuro-technology neurocognitive neuroelectric activity patent sam technology Source Type: blogs
Sharing Developmental change in the influence of domain-general abilities and domain-specific knowledge on mathematics achievement: An eight-year longitudinal study. via BrowZine
Developmental change in the influence of domain-general abilities and domain-specific knowledge on mathematics achievement: An eight-year longitudinal study.Geary, David C.; Nicholas, Alan; Li, Yaoran; Sun, JianguoJournal of Educational Psychology: Vol. 109 Issue 5 – 2017: 680 - 69310.1037/edu0000159University of Minnesota Users:http://login.ezproxy.lib.umn.edu/login?url=http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/edu0000159Non-University of Minnesota Users: (Full text may not be available)http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/edu0000159Accessed with BrowZine, supported by University of Minnesota.
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - July 12, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
Review: The neuroscience of intelligence by Richard J. Haier via BrowZine
Review: The neuroscience of intelligence by Richard J. HaierSitartchouk, Arseni; Evans, Alan C.Intelligence: Articles in pressUniversity of Minnesota Users:http://login.ezproxy.lib.umn.edu/login?url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289617302283Non-University of Minnesota Users: (Full text may not be available)http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289617302283Accessed with BrowZine, supported by University of Minnesota.
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - September 7, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
Let ' s Not Do Away with Comprehensive Cognitive Assessments Just Yet | Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
Good article by two of my favorite scholars. Joel Schneider and Alan KaufmanLet ' s Not Do Away with Comprehensive Cognitive Assessments Just Yet | Archives of Clinical NeuropsychologyFromTwitter, a Flipboard magazine bySchool Psyched!We review rational and empirical reasons that comprehensive cognitive assessments are useful …Read it on FlipboardRead it on academic.oup.com
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - March 7, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
MindHub Pub #3: WJ IV Norm-Based and Supplemental Clinical Test Groupings for “Intelligent” Intelligence Testing with the WJ IV
I am pleased to announce the availability ofMindHub Pub #3 (WJ IV Norm-Based and Supplemental Clinical Test Groupings for " Intelligent " Intelligence Testing with the WJ IV). Click the link to view or download.The material in this document is based on my work during the development of the WJ IV as well as significant post-WJ IV publication analyses. I have been completing considerable post-WJ IV data analysis in response to questions on listservs and to develop advanced and clinical interpretation information for convention presentations and workshops. In the past I had the luxury of time to write profes...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - May 16, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Tags: CHC theory CHC videos Intelligent intelligence testing with the WJ IV COG MindHub Pub WJ IV OL Source Type: blogs
Qantas monitors brainwaves of pilots and passengers to test 19.5 ‑hour flight from NY to Sydney
Monitoring brainwaves via dreem werable device (Qantas)
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Qantas’ first 19.5‑hour research flight from New York to Sydney takes off (Nine News):
“Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, who today is in New York for the research flight, told Today Show via a live cross that he will be selecting an aircraft for the mammoth job by the year’s end, in line with a previous time-line.
“The flight is going to be ground-breaking, as you said. We’ve got 19 hours — we’ve got a lot of scientists and we’re looking at different ways of making the operation actually great for our passengers,” Joyce said.
A handful of Qan...
Source: SharpBrains - October 21, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology alertness Dreem monitor sleep New York productivity Quantas safety Sydney wearable Source Type: blogs
Transcending Maslow ’s hierarchy of needs via Maslow’s own research on Peak Experiences
Heaven, so to speak, lies waiting for us through life, ready to step into for a
time and to enjoy before we have to come back to our ordinary life of striving.
And once we have been in it, we can remember it forever, and feed ourselves
on this memory and be sustained in times of stress.
—Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being (1962)
After completing Motivation and Personality in 1954, Maslow turned his attention to a particular characteristic of self-actualizing people that long fascinated him. Many of the self-actualizing people he studied tended to sound like traditional mystics, describing unusual moments of hei...
Source: SharpBrains - March 31, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Scott Barry Kaufman Tags: Author Speaks Series Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning hierarchy of needs Maslow Peak Experiences self-actualization Transcend Source Type: blogs
Transcending Maslow ’s famous “hierarchy of needs” through Maslow’s own research on Peak Experiences
Heaven, so to speak, lies waiting for us through life, ready to step into for a
time and to enjoy before we have to come back to our ordinary life of striving.
And once we have been in it, we can remember it forever, and feed ourselves
on this memory and be sustained in times of stress.
—Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being (1962)
After completing Motivation and Personality in 1954, Maslow turned his attention to a particular characteristic of self-actualizing people that long fascinated him. Many of the self-actualizing people he studied tended to sound like traditional mystics, describing unusual moments of hei...
Source: SharpBrains - April 8, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Scott Barry Kaufman Tags: Author Speaks Series Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning hierarchy of needs Maslow Peak Experiences self-actualization Transcend Source Type: blogs
Study in China finds that retirement may accelerate cognitive decline, even for those with stable income
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
The Study:
Pension Benefits, Early Retirement and Human Capital Depreciation in Late Adulthood (Papers, arXiv.org)
Abstract: Historically, economists have mainly focused on human capital accumulation and considerably less so on the causes and consequences of human capital depreciation in late adulthood. Studying human capital depreciation over the life cycle has powerful economic consequences for decision-making in old age. Using data from the introduction of a retirement program in China, we examine how the introduction of a retirement program influences ind...
Source: SharpBrains - June 10, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning aging China cognition cognitive decline cognitive-abilities cognitive-functioning cognitive-skills dementia developing countries mental retirement middle-income countries neuropl Source Type: blogs
