Positive and Negative Distractions for Brain Training
Brain training with distractions for improving working memory and goal focus, building resilience, and reducing anxiety and mood disorders.
Brain training with distractions for improving working memory and goal focus, building resilience, and reducing anxiety and mood disorders.
Both depression and anxiety can thus be treated with the right kind of computerized brain training, complementing other brain health strategies.
The last four questions of the Resilience Survey some of you took recently measured our self-evaluations for: Being on track with life-goals Living according to… Read More »Personal Success Test
The emotional dual n-back is working memory training exercise. It modifies the standard dual n-back by using emotional content in place of neutral stimuli.
Some social situations that make smart people dumber – by around 20 IQ points – in a small groups where evaluating each other in terms of how smart you are.
‘I want to sleep in, but I should get up and get to work’. ‘I want to watch this movie, but I should do my paper.’ ‘I want to tell my partner that he’s totally irresponsible, but I should talk it through’.
Start to pay attention to the sensations of breathing in and breathing out, without trying to control your breath. Mindfulness improves working memory.
Four days of ‘mindfulness meditation’ training for only 20 minutes each day improves not only mood and stress levels but also cognitive processing efficiency
Recent studies show positive effects of mindfulness meditation on both working memory capacity & our ability to manage our emotions under stress: on our emotional intelligence.