Executive Function & Dealing With Distraction
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...
Working Memory
How To Do Mindfulness Meditation for Improving Brain Function
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...
How Dual N-Back Training Improves Skill Learning
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...
Mindfulness Mediation Boosts Working Memory
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...
The Dual N-back Fluid Intelligence Connection
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...
The Working Memory – IQ Connection
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...