Here you have 4 of the most pop­u­lar brain games in our blog, plus a bonus stress man­age­ment tip.

Brain Teaser 1. In which direc­tion is the bus pic­tured below traveling?

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Do you know where words are stored in your brain…?

In your tem­po­ral lobe! (in green on this pro­file view of the right side of your brain).

As you know your brain has two sides (two hemi­spheres) con­nected by the cor­pus cal­lo­sum. So you have one tem­po­ral lobe on each side of the brain.

If you are right-handed, your lan­guage is stored mostly in your left tem­po­ral lobe. If you are left-handed, you are not so lat­er­al­ized and your lan­guage is stored a bit on both sides of your brain in the tem­po­ral lobes.

Words in the brain are not stored ran­domly. They seemed to be quite orga­nized. Research has shown that words that are often heard together (such as salt and pep­per) or words that share some mean­ing (such as nurse and doc­tor) are con­nected or asso­ci­ated in the brain. Once you hear one, the other is activated.

Here is a brain exer­cise whose aim is to stim­u­late the con­nec­tions or asso­ci­a­tions between words in your tem­po­ral lobe.

In the left col­umn you have a Read the rest of this entry »

Quick reminder: The orga­niz­ers of the con­fer­ence Enhanc­ing Cog­ni­tion and Emo­tions for Learn­ing — Learn­ing & The Brain Con­fer­ence that Car­o­line, Iwan and I attended in Feb­ru­ary (our review here) , are now putting together Learn­ing & the Brain: Mold­ing Minds. How to Shape the Devel­op­ing Brain for Learn­ing and Achieve­ment. Cam­bridge, MA, April 28-30th 2007.

A clar­i­fi­ca­tion: the “Devel­op­ing Brain” in that title refers to k12 stu­dents’ brains…but, of course, read­ers of this blog know that our brains never stop devel­op­ing, no mat­ter our age…

A great con­fer­ence, espe­cially for K12 edu­ca­tors inter­ested in learn­ing more about brain research.