Unless we experience the unpleasant symptoms of being wrong — that surge of Pe activity a few hundred milliseconds after the error, directing our attention to the very thing we’d like to ignore —...
The Marshmallow Test for will power The marshmallow test was first conducted in 1968 by Professor Walter Mischel, a groundbreaking psychologist in the field of self-control and will power. This ingenious experiment concerning kids wrestling...
‘I want to sleep in, but I should get up and get to work’. ‘I want to watch this movie, but I should do my paper.’ ‘I want to tell my partner that he’s...
As quick as you can say out loud the colour of every word – but NOT the word you read! Ignore the word, just say the colour of the ink. (right click to download...
In this post we describe step-by-step how to do mindfulness training – shown to have positive effects on working memory capacity. Transcribed from an audio file on Gil Fronsdal’s excellent Insight Meditation Center website. You can...
Expertise in any domain – whether chess, language learning, medical diagnosis, carpentry, or statistical analysis – involves hundreds of hours of deliberate, experimental practice. This results in the following: Developing the perception of...
In a study that has been published in the latest issue of Consciousness and Cognition, Fadel Zeiden and his colleagues have shown that only four days of ‘mindfulness meditation’ training for only 20 minutes...
Unlike other animals, we have the ability to project into the future – to consider where we are heading and what we may be doing in the future. We are strongly motivated by...
In 2008 a team of cognitive neuroscientists from Bern, Switzerland and Michigan, United States, demonstrated that a very specific type of cognitive training called the dual n-back can improve intelligence. This was the first...
In 2008 a team of cognitive neuroscientists from Bern, Switzerland and Michigan, United States, demonstrated that a very specific type of cognitive training called the dual n-back can improve intelligence. The article entitled ‘improving...