I’m pretty sure anyone over the age is 55 is petrified that they will succumb to Alzheimer’s. So, we try to do all sorts of activities to try to keep this bogeyman to bay.
Tag Archives: Working memory
Multitasking is fine- for some!
Ah, yes, this will tick a whole bunch of you off. Deservedly so, since many of you perpetually tell me I am making a mistake with all my time-slicing. (I don’t call it multi-tasking- because those that can, actually fill in the micro-time spaces with a different task.)
Your brain is smarter than you think- really!
Dr. Grayden Solman, Allan Cheyne and Daniel Smilek from the University of Waterloo (Canada) published “Found and missed: Failing to recognize a search target despite moving it” in Cognition. They describe what they term an “unpacking” experience- our ability to search and find an object. The issue is that while searching for an item, we often have already found the object we seek- we just don’t realize it’s in our grasp. It seems that our various executive functions are all operating at different speeds- and our perception, our ability to coalesce this knowledge, is not able to keep pace.
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America’s Got Talent? Yes, and it does beat practice…
We have been deluged recently with books and articles extolling the need to practice, practice, practice. Now, don’t get me wrong- I, too, understand the need for honing one’s craft. But, I am sick and tired of folks neglecting the need to recognize talent.
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