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Test your Short-Term Memory: How many letters can you memorize?
Memory is more complex that we usually think. Cognitive sciences have identified different memory systems, each supported by different brain regions. One major difference is between long-term and...
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January Newsletter: Let’s Talk Brain Fitness, Neuroplasticity and Cognitive...
Let us first announce an upcoming Virtual Book Club Discussion focused on Brain Fitness, to take place on Monday March 14th in honor of Brain Awareness Week 2011 (March 14-20th). Let’s discuss burning...
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February Update: Retooling Brain Health for the 21st Century
Welcome to the February edition of SharpBrains monthly eNewsletter: First Report of the Council on the Ageing Society: Global Policy journal publishes the full Policy Principles and call to action...
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Brain Teasers: A Good Laugh
Laughing feels good. Laughing is indeed good in most cases. A good belly laugh amounts to an aerobic exercise as your blood pressure and heart rate increase, your breathing changes and your diaphragm...
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Math Brain Teaser for Kids and Adults: Archimedes Grave
(Editor’s Note: every other Friday, starting today, we’ll publish a brain teaser to exercise our brains a bit. Here you have one submitted by new contributor Maria Lando. Enjoy!). Archimedes made a...
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Brain Games and Optical Illusions @ National Geographic
Several SharpBrains friends recommend the recent 3-part National Geographic TV mini-series Brain Games focused on Perception, Attention and Memory. You can learn about the series and experiment a good...
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Update: How Stress and Emotions Impact Brain Performance
Sponsored Ad (How to Advertise on SharpBrains.com) Time for the October edition of the monthly SharpBrains eNewsletter, featuring this time several articles on the impact of stress, emotions, and...
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Math Brain Teaser: Unfinished Thesis
You are spending the summer polishing your thesis in the university library. Every day you take the escalator into the subway, turn right and catch a train going up North to the university. One day you...
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Math Brain Teaser: How to Choose a Mans Shirt
You have been invited to an important fundraising gala at your old college and decided that this black-tie event demands a short collar super white Italian shirt, like the one you bought years ago for...
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Update: How will Health incorporate Brain?
Time for SharpBrains’ March 2012 eNewsletter, featuring in this occasion thought-provoking perspectives on emotions, ADHD, health and the brain, and a brief status update of the upcoming 2012...
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Entrena tu mente con un acertijo: ¿en qué dirección va el autobús?
_______________ No hay mucho preámbulo para esta prueba de razonamiento. ¿Ves el autobús de la imagen? (Same brain teaser available in English here) Pues asumiendo que avanza hacia adelante, ¿En qué...
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Challenge your mind with this logic brain teaser: Which direction is the bus...
_______________ Can you see the bus above? Assuming it is moving forward, in which direction do you think it’s traveling, right or left? Please try answering on your own before checking below…...
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Brain Teaser for pattern recognition: The Empty Triangle
Here you have a quick brain teaser…which number should be placed in the empty triangle to the right? This puzzle works your executive functions in your frontal lobes by using your pattern recognition,...
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Are you familiar with these research findings and technologies...
___________________________________ Try adding 3 and 8 in your head. That was easy. Now, trying adding 33 and 88. That was probably more difficult. Finally, try adding 333 and 888. Time for...
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What do you see first, animals or people?
Courtesy Matt Lieberman, author of “Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect” ___ Try hard, try different, and you’ll see both For more visual illusions and brain teasers: Test your Brain with these...
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Update: Why monitoring Typing Cadence may help detect early Parkinson’s and...
Above: Pattern of Typing Cadence in 52-year-old male with Parkinson’s. Source: NeuraMetrix _____ Time for SharpBrains’ first eNewsletter in 2018, offering a fascinating sneek peek into the rapidly...
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Learn about cognition and mental self-rotation with these quick brain teasers
___ Mental self-rotation is the cognitive skill to imagine yourself in space and to imagine yourself moving — such as when you reading a map or finding your car in the parking lot. Imagine that you...
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News you can use: To improve memory, exercise brain and body at the same time
___ Time for SharpBrains’ eNewsletter tracking the latest thinking, research and tools for brain health. This month we feature five fascinating interviews at the frontier of applied neuroscience and a...
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Let’s improve Brain Health Literacy during Brain Awareness Week 2018
___ Please join us in getting ready to celebrate Brain Awareness Week 2018 (March 12–18th), the annual global campaign organized by the Dana Foundation to increase public awareness about the progress...
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Fun brain teasers for kids and adults: Which train is going the “wrong” way?...
___ In the image above, courtesy of Heathrow Express. you can see 27 trains on the tracks. Quick — can you spot the outlier? (Not necessarily “wrong”, just different from all other trains) Solution...
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