A new study has found that it may be possible to train people to be more intelligent, increasing the brainpower they had at birth.
The key, researchers found, was carefully structured training in working memory ? the kind that allows memorization of a telephone number just long enough to dial it. This type of memory is [...]
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It’s the Age of the Right Brain
Posted in Art, Brain, Creativity, arts-in-business on Apr 24th, 2008
JANET RAE-DUPREE writes in the New York Times:
I’M of two minds. As a matter of fact, so are you. And until recently, corporate America wasn’t doing much to take advantage of one of them. But now that we?re hip-deep in what has been called both the Creative Economy and the Conceptual Age, no one can [...]
Tony Buzan on Memory
Posted in Art, Brain, Conferences, Creativity on Apr 21st, 2008
Tony Buzan, the UK-based inventor of Mind Maps, says “When you train your memory and train your imagination, there is a remarkable increase in concentration, study skills and creativity, while at the same time raising your IQ.” At the American Creativity Assoc Conference in Singapore, he asked us to write down the [...]
Are you creative? Here’s a test.
Posted in Brain, Creativity, arts-based training on Dec 5th, 2007
Test yourself to see if you are right-brain dominant or left-brained. You’ll find the results quite informative. My own results are 45% L brain and 55% R brain. No wonder I conduct whole-brain thinking workshops!
The test is part of a clever campaign by The Art Institute of Vancouver. They are looking for [...]
What has long been known about Monet?s later years is that he suffered from cataracts and that his eyesight worsened so much that he painted from memory. He acknowledged to an interviewer that he was ?trusting solely to the labels on the tubes of paint and to the force of habit.?
Now, thanks to modern digital [...]
Art and Science in their Natural Habitat
Posted in Art, Creativity and Innovation Workshops, Science on Sep 19th, 2007
Seminar Saturday November 11 from 13.00 - 17.30 h. AmsterdamFor many people the subject of art and science is still hard to grasp. Is there something like artistic science, or scientific art, and whereis the boundary to be drawn as to whether something is art or science? Especially in the case of ‘invisible’ technology [...]
Creativity at Work Newsletter: Happiness
Posted in Creativity, Creativity at Work Newsletter, Home, Science on May 28th, 2007
The Art and Science of Happiness
In recent years, psychologists and neuroscientists have been studying the science of happiness, and their findings are having an impact on business, economics and government policy.
American psychologist, Professor Ed Diener from the University of Illinois, says that simply by asking people, how happy they are at various times of the [...]
New research on vegetables and aging
Posted in Brain on May 14th, 2007
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