ExecuThink Brain Fitness White Paper: A MUST READ. Understand the neuroscience behind brain fitness. Learn about working memory, brain plasticity and how computer based training can change and improve the brain’s neurological pathways and reverse age-related mental decline.
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Your Aging Brain: What’s Normal, What’s Not. Knowing how the normal brain ages…and how those changes affect your memory… can make the occasional senior moment less worrisome. Here’s a timetable of normal brain aging by decade, starting in your twenties. Read more…
Adults of All Ages: Computerized Training of Working Memory – A Method For Cognitive Enhancement in Healthy Adults. Large study shows computer based brain training enhances cognitive performance in healthy adults of all ages. Read more…
ExecuThink co-founder, Dr. Avner Stern interviewed on Unity.FM radio.
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Did Working Memory Spark Creative Culture? With enhanced working memory, modern humans could do what their ancestors could not: express themselves in art… speak in fully grammatical language, plan ahead and make highly complex tools. Read more…
For Whom the Mind Wanders.. Study shows how reduced working memory capacity, a natural part of mental aging, causes our mind to wander much more frequently during tasks. Read more…
Improving Fluid Intelligence with training on working memory: Fluid intelligence refers to the ability to reason and solve new problems. It is considered one of the most important factors in learning. This study shows how brain training improves fluid intelligence. Read more…
Learning: Working Memory and Learning, Avner Stern, Ph.D.
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The Overflowing Brain:
Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory
Torkel Klingberg, MD, PhD
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