By: Puzzle: do writing miracles happen? « SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:35:29 +0000

[...] Solution: please welcome Caroline, our contributing editor of the blog, who started writing last week such good posts as: – Brain Puzzle for the Whole Brain: The Blind Beggar – Nutritional Supplements and Brain Fitness – Visual Perception Brain Teaser – Brain Coach Answers: How Can I Be More Creative? Is Creativity a Part of BrainÂ Fitness? – Social Intelligence and Mirror Neurons – Social Intelligence and the Frontal Lobes – More Weight, Less Memory â€“ Connections Between Physical and Brain Fitness – Brain Yoga: Stress â€” Killing You Softly – Brain Coach Answers: Arenâ€™t crosswords and sudoku sufficient brain exercise? [...]

By: Brain Puzzle for the Whole Brain: The Blind Beggar « SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:01:51 +0000

[...] Brain Use: This puzzle touches on analytical functions like abstract reasoning, hypothesis testing, and implicit assumptions residing in your frontal lobes, as well as your creativity in finding novel solutions to problems and emotional memory. The brain region most strongly implicated in emotional memory is the amygdala. The amygdala is critically involved in calculating the emotional significance of events, and, through its connection to brain regions dealing with sensory experiences, also appears to be responsible for the influence of emotion on perception – alerting us to notice emotionally significant events even when we’re not paying attention. The amygdala appears to be particularly keyed to negative experiences. But it is not only the amygdala that is involved in this complex interaction. The cerebellum, most strongly associated with motor coordination skills, may also be involved in remembering strong emotions, in particular, in the consolidation of long-term memories of fear. Parts of the prefrontal cortex also appear to be involved. One study found that a region of the prefrontal cortex was jointly influenced by a combination of mood state and cognitive task, but not by either one alone. Another study found that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is more active when the participants were surprised by unexpected responses. [...]

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By: Puzzle: do writing miracles happen? « SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution

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