science
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20 Must-Know Facts to Harness Neuroplasticity and Improve Brain Health
Given that June is Alzheimer's & Brain Awareness Month, let's discuss these 20 facts about brain health. You may find some good ideas for the summer!
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Domain Specificity of Creativity: Theory, Research, and Practice
Creativity has commonly been thought of either as a set of domain- general skills that can be applied broadly like a special kind of intelligence or as a general personality trait that colors a person’s approach to any kind of task or problem, but these ways of thinking about creativity are misleading. A better metaphor for creativity than either intelligence or a personality trait is expertise.
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Ten Common Brain Health and Brain Training Myths, Debunked
Interested in neuroplasticity and brain training topics? And perhaps a little bit confused? Below are 10 common myths, debunked.
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The Real Brain Game: Harnessing Neuroplasticity to Upgrade Our Mental Equipment
Do you think individuals can train their brain to respond in a particular way to certain situations, or do you think our brain's innate "startle response" is too hardwired to alter?
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Explaining Color Constancy
Why the perceived color of objects remains relatively constant under varying illumination conditions?
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We Need To Innovate The Innovation Process
We need to shift from a disjointed effort that puts researchers on one side of a great divide and industry on another, to a combined, interdisciplinary effort.
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The Surprising Reason Math Anxiety May Be Helpful For Math Learning
We typically think of math anxiety as universally bad for math learning, but a team of scholars have now discovered that the relationship between math anxiety and learning is much more complex.
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Digital Immortality
Is a Google executive’s vision of a digital afterlife feasible or a fantasy?
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Why We Fail To Adapt
We cannot live our lives surrounded by the familiar and expect to embrace the new and different.
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Neurotechnology Can Improve Our Lives—if We First Address These Privacy and Informed Consent Issues
What if scientists were able to implant or erase memories? Great...or do you think this is scientific innovation gone too far?
