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  • The cognitive benefits of playing video games

    It's often said that the youth of our society wastes their time playing video games; ostensibly a purely diversionary activity with no inherent merit. However, as someone with a youth misspent in this way, I have to disagree. There are many ways I feel video game-playing may serve me well ...

  • Bilinguals perform better in the false belief task

    Anything you do for an extended period of time has neurological and cognitive effects. Speaking another language is one thing that seems to have a wide range of effects, one of which being performance in tasks involving reasoning about other people's beliefs, such as the false belief task. The False Belief ...

  • Piracetam – The nootropic with many uses

    Piracetam is a nootropic – a compound used to improve mental performance in some way. They're often called (and sold as) “smart drugs.” The name derives from the Greek words nous and trepein, meaning “mind” and “to turn” respectively. Or so Wikipedia says at least. You may be familiar with ...

  • The rough guide to biofeedback machines, devices and processes

    Biofeedback is a process where biological or neurological (in which case it would be neurofeedback) systems are monitored by a device, and information is fed back from the device to the individual (or a doctor stood next to said individual). This allows us to monitor, regulate, investigate and learn ...

  • Why are some people more driven than others???

    Some people just have that "Get up and go," don't they??? This goes by many names - self-control, grit, motivation, drive, persistence, work-ethic. When it comes to succeeding in a particular pursuit, this thing is a pretty important factor, too. One study found that self-reported grit was more important ...

  • Leadership strengths

    Strengths-based approaches to work and life are popular these days; particularly in how personal strengths can improve leadership, as better leaders mean better experiences for employees, more productivity, and more money (or other bottom line).  But a key question is, do leadership strengths exist?  Are there strengths that all leaders ...

  • Sternberg’s triangular theory of love

    Bob Sternberg is a pretty prolific guy in psychology. Among many other topics, he’s studied intelligence, thinking styles, leadership, and he currently holds 10 honorary doctorates. Below I present a quick overview of Sternberg’s triangular theory of love. In Sternberg’s theory, there are three main facets of love: Passion – ...

  • Casual sex in college

    No, before you get excited, that wasn't an offer. Psychologists have chosen some fascinating topics for study. The evolutionary roots of personality. The nature of mental disorder. The antecedents of a fulfilling life. And now... "What happens when college students get horny!" Most 'first-time' experiences happen ...

One huge frustration I have with learning Spanish -- and I understand I'm not alone on this -- is missing loads of what's being said while translating one particular word. While listening to a dialogue, my attention latches on to words I recognise and I try to retrieve the English translation. ...

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Just to expand on the previous post about the effect of action video games on attention, here's a little more detail about the experiment in the paper. In this test, a group of participants, all with little or no video game playing experience, were randomly assigned to two groups. The first group ...

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It's often said that the youth of our society wastes their time playing video games; ostensibly a purely diversionary activity with no inherent merit. However, as someone with a youth misspent in this way, I have to disagree. There are many ways I feel video game-playing may serve me well ...

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I've been digging into research papers again, looking for ways to enhance second language acquisition. After working through a few papers and an introductory text book, I was left thinking "When are they going to get to the part about how to learn languages better?"  Most of the research seems ...

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Anything you do for an extended period of time has neurological and cognitive effects. Speaking another language is one thing that seems to have a wide range of effects, one of which being performance in tasks involving reasoning about other people's beliefs, such as the false belief task. The False Belief ...

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Resilience applied to food

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I saw a TED talk that made me think about resilience, and how it's such a broad and useful concept to have in your mental repertoire. You can apply it to anything and it will give you useful, practical ideas. This example is access to food, but I think the ...

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Piracetam is a nootropic – a compound used to improve mental performance in some way. They're often called (and sold as) “smart drugs.” The name derives from the Greek words nous and trepein, meaning “mind” and “to turn” respectively. Or so Wikipedia says at least. You may be familiar with ...

Continue

Biofeedback is a process where biological or neurological (in which case it would be neurofeedback) systems are monitored by a device, and information is fed back from the device to the individual (or a doctor stood next to said individual). This allows us to monitor, regulate, investigate and learn ...

Continue

Is minimalism a good thing?

Posted by Warren Davies 1 Comment

Yes.

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Some people just have that "Get up and go," don't they??? This goes by many names - self-control, grit, motivation, drive, persistence, work-ethic. When it comes to succeeding in a particular pursuit, this thing is a pretty important factor, too. One study found that self-reported grit was more important ...

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