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Dear readers
Welcome to the latest edition of our newsletter. This edition
is jam packed with latest news and studies and includes an
interesting article on the plasticity of the brain. Learn how
speaking in complex language to children can improve their
language skills. Read evidence about how even gifted children
need to work hard before they succeed. Included as always fun
brain training games, puzzles and trivia. Happy reading!
Contents
1. Puzzles and
teasers
2. Studies
3. In the news
4. Article: The Brain - a work in
progress
5. Quotes and trivia
6. Site of the month: Games for the brain
7. Word of the month: Rusticate
8. Memory tips
9. Games |
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Puzzles and Teasers |
Brain Teaser - If you had a
5-litre and a 3-litre bowl and access to water. How would you
measure exactly 4 liters?
Riddle: How many bricks does it take to complete a building
made of brick?
Solutions
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Studies |
Reinforcing memory
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is possible to
adopt behaviors that will increase memory performance at any
level of current achievement. Here are some techniques that will
sharpen your memory.
The connection between intellectual ability and net worth - IQ
scores do not predict financial well being. Even though higher IQ
individuals may earn more money, lifestyle factors usually even out
major differences in net worth.
Baby talk may result in poor language skills - Simple sentences can slow language
development. By avoiding baby talk,
children are likely to imitate their parents and are challenged to
learn complex language skills.
Gender Differences In IQ Smaller Than Believed - Studies show that on average, women
underestimate their IQ scores by about five points while men
overestimate their own IQs.
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In the news |
Intelligence is represented in many ways - The attitudes and
behaviors of some historical people. Categories include witty,
aggressive, shy and schizophrenic.
Deliberate practice and not innate ability is more likely to bring
success. - As the American inventor Thomas Edison
put it: “Genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent
perspiration.” |
The Brain - a work in
progress |
by: Robert Ringer
Cognitive science is the study of the
brain mechanisms responsible for an individual’s thoughts, moods,
decisions, and actions. Cognition refers to everything that takes
place in an individual’s brain that helps him understand the world
around him. To accomplish such an understanding involves mental
processes such as concentration, memory, conceptualization,
creativity, and emotions.
In
his book The New Brain, Dr. Richard Restak uses the term “plasticity
of the new brain” to refer to the capacity of the brain to transform
itself. This is an incredibly exciting notion, and one that has
endless positive ramifications.
Read More..
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Quotes and trivia |
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but
there are others who with the help of their art and their
intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
- Pablo Picasso
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant
intelligence.
- Henrik Tikkanen
The adult human brain is about 2% of the total body weight.
During development, the brain creates 30,000 synapses per second
for every square centimeter of cortical surface. (Source: Rose,
S., The Future of the Brain. The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's
Neuroscience, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.) |
Site of the month |
Games for the Brain
Interactive games that train mind and memory. Features an
interesting selection of word games. |
Word of the month |
Rusticate To go to or live in the country.
For the longest time, we're stuck in a cabin hewn out of the
ground in a parcel of woods as the boys hide and mend; for
another, we rusticate on a farm bounded by fields that must be
tilled by the hard labor of man and beast. -- Stephen Hunter,
"When Johnny Doesn't Come Marching Home", Washington Post,
December 17, 1999 |
Memory tips |
Cramming
Information is memorized more easily if learning periods are
spaced out rather than crammed into a few study sessions. More
material will be memorized if learning is spaced out and frequent
breaks are made than if the same information is repeated over and
over again in one study session. |
Games |
Button Mania - Set all the buttons to zero.
Silversphere - from Miniclip.com. Get the Silver Sphere in to
the Blue Vortex before the time runs out. This game can become
addictive! If you want to start from level 15 (this is about as
far as I went) you can load the level 'confusion' |
Puzzles and teaser solutions |
Brain teaser - Fill the 5-litre bowl and overspill water
to the 3-litre bowl, which you empty afterwards. From the 5-litre
bowl overspill the 2 remaining liters into the 3-litre bowl. Refill
the 5-litre bowl and fill in the 3-litre bowl (with 1 liter) so 4
liters remain in the 5-litre bowl.
Riddle - Only one, the last one |
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