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 [...]
Category Archive for 'Brain'
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 [...]
New research on vegetables and aging
Posted in Brain on May 14th, 2007
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Comotose man’s brain rewires itself
Posted in Brain on May 14th, 2007
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