Alvaro Fernandez has started a wonderful blog: the Sharpbrains blog, all about brain fitness! I posted once about the company that Alvaro runs, Sharpbrains, and the interesting articles on that website.
Here are some of my favorites from his posts so far:
- 1) The “It” in “Use It or Lose It”: what are the different parts of the brain that people should think about exercising?
2) Physical Fitness and Brain Fitness: this post includes the super-interesting quote: “rats that get regular exercise literally grow bigger brains than sedentary rats.â€
3) The Brain and Mind Fitness Revolution is here with us: how do you improve brain fitness and waht in terms of neuromarketing affects decision-making?
And today’s Sharpbrains post relates to both #2 mind-body and #3 decision-making: Mind/Body and the Role of Emotions in Decision-Making.
My favorite section of the sharpbrains blog is the brain exercises section. This section, which is updated with a new brain puzzles every few days, has you shuffle around different parts of your brain – sometime doing estimates and calculations, sometimes interesting word exercises, and my favorite is that Alvaro puts up many visual puzzles, such as the penny question, the Stroop test, and the classic old-lady/young-lady (see the post for an explanation of the below image):
So enjoy Alvaro’s blog! And he says that any questions you have on the brain to email him or to post comments on the blog.
In closing, here is the New Yorker’s recent update of the Old Lady / Young Lady discussion. :)
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