Comments on: I already do crosswords and sudoku. Do I need anything else? http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/01/08/i-already-do-crosswords-and-sudoku-do-i-need-anything-else/ Brain Fitness and Cognitive Health news Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:55:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: » Brain Fitness Buzz and Brain Awareness Week   « Brain Fitness Revolution at SharpBrains      http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/01/08/i-already-do-crosswords-and-sudoku-do-i-need-anything-else/#comment-7696 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 07:12:50 +0000 http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/01/08/i-already-do-crosswords-and-sudoku-do-i-need-anything-else/#comment-7696 [...] I already do crosswords and sudoku. Do I need anything else? [...] [...] I already do crosswords and sudoku. Do I need anything else? [...]

]]> by: Personal Development Carnival 01/14/07 - Spirituality Applied to Life - Balanced Life Center http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/01/08/i-already-do-crosswords-and-sudoku-do-i-need-anything-else/#comment-2161 Sun, 14 Jan 2007 06:53:59 +0000 http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/01/08/i-already-do-crosswords-and-sudoku-do-i-need-anything-else/#comment-2161 [...] Caroline Latham presents Crosswords and Sudoku, Do I Need Anything Else? posted at SharpBrains. Learn how to exercise your cognitive skills by doing a diversity of activities - not just the same old thing. [...] [...] Caroline Latham presents Crosswords and Sudoku, Do I Need Anything Else? posted at SharpBrains. Learn how to exercise your cognitive skills by doing a diversity of activities - not just the same old thing. [...]

]]> by: Caroline http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/01/08/i-already-do-crosswords-and-sudoku-do-i-need-anything-else/#comment-2053 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:15:38 +0000 http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/01/08/i-already-do-crosswords-and-sudoku-do-i-need-anything-else/#comment-2053 Great comment James! Essentially any challenging mental work will be good for your mind. New activities use more of your brain as you are learning. And activities that use many different cognitive abilities (motor coordination, visualization, spatial rotation, computation, etc.) use more of your brain. So, keep doing what you’re doing - it’s good! Check out the <a href="http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/computing/seminars/2006/autumn.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Whitehead Lectures on Cognition, Computation, & Creativity</a> or this <a href="http://www.lce.hut.fi/~vasily/vasily_files/64.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">PET study of creativity</a>. Great comment James! Essentially any challenging mental work will be good for your mind. New activities use more of your brain as you are learning. And activities that use many different cognitive abilities (motor coordination, visualization, spatial rotation, computation, etc.) use more of your brain. So, keep doing what you’re doing - it’s good!

Check out the Whitehead Lectures on Cognition, Computation, & Creativity or this PET study of creativity.

]]> by: James Davidson http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/01/08/i-already-do-crosswords-and-sudoku-do-i-need-anything-else/#comment-1975 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:45:19 +0000 http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/01/08/i-already-do-crosswords-and-sudoku-do-i-need-anything-else/#comment-1975 The February issue of Men’s Journal article on pg. 48, titled “Your Brain on Video Games” showed a picture of a brain in several activities as captured with an MRI showing blood flows to it. There are several activities mentioned but none such as the development of a 3-D design of a building within a landscape, or the composition of a song, or some other brain storming ideation activity. I am wondering if such studies have been done. One of the greatest pleasures I can obtain is to develop a creative design solution to a problem. It is almost as if I can stimulate my own endorphen flow, anytime I want, just by thinking of new ideas. The February issue of Men’s Journal article on pg. 48, titled “Your Brain on Video Games” showed a picture of a brain in several activities as captured with an MRI showing blood flows to it. There are several activities mentioned but none such as the development of a 3-D design of a building within a landscape, or the composition of a song, or some other brain storming ideation activity. I am wondering if such studies have been done. One of the greatest pleasures I can obtain is to develop a creative design solution to a problem. It is almost as if I can stimulate my own endorphen flow, anytime I want, just by thinking of new ideas.

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