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Maxime Lagacé

The Dynamic Duo: Imagination + Knowledge | Psychology Today - 2 views

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  • Study confirms robust daydreaming and superior intelligence are connected.
  • while daydreaming, your thoughts are gliding and ricocheting all over the place--past, present, future--accessing all your stored knowledge, memories, experiences
  • Many brilliant individuals--from Einstein to Mozart--credit their imagination as the source of their creativity and genius.
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  • He famously said: "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
  • Without imagination, knowledge would just be a set of facts and figures going nowhere.
  • Maxime Lagacé on 23 Jan 10
     
    Study confirms robust daydreaming and superior intelligence are connected.
  • Beth D Johnson on 24 Apr 14
     
    Thinking over things, whether daydreaming or being involved in deep thought over conceptual knowledge or experiences (which can involve both), strengthens connections and builds various domains and connections within our brain, among other things. This results in higher intelligence, memory consolidation, etc. - neural plasticity at its finest.
Maxime Lagacé

Ten Minutes Of Talking Improves Memory And Test Performance - 2 views

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  • Spending just 10 minutes talking to another person can help improve your memory and your performance on tests, according to a University of Michigan study to be published in the February 2008 issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
  • The higher the level of participants' social interaction, researchers found, the better their cognitive functioning.
  • The findings also suggest that social isolation may have a negative effect on intellectual abilities as well as emotional well-being. And for a society characterized by increasing levels of social isolation—a trend sociologist Robert Putnam calls "Bowling Alone"—the effects could be far-reaching.
  • Maxime Lagacé on 21 Feb 10
     
    Talking with friends helps us improve cognitive function. Social isolation do the opposite.
Maxime Lagacé

Observations: Surprised? How the brain records memories of the unexpected - 0 views

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  • human brain is specially tuned to remember things that are out of the ordinary
  • Only relevant information receives a 'memory boost' by the reward system, which includes the nucleus accumbens," he noted, so people are more inclined to remember incidents from which they might learn something new
  • Maxime Lagacé on 24 Feb 10
     
    The human brain is specially tuned to remember things that are out of the ordinary
Maxime Lagacé

Memory Games - 1 views

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    Remember the dots
Maxime Lagacé

Free Brain Games | Play Free Online Brain Training Games | Brain Training 101 - 1 views

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  • Maxime Lagacé on 21 Jan 10
     
    Free Brain Games! Check out our free online brain training games. Play fun logic games, memory games, strategy and many more brain building games!
Maxime Lagacé

Psych Basics | Psychology Today - 2 views

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    Good Links about Psychology from PsychologyToday.com
Cammy Torgenrud

Sins of the Grandfathers - Newsweek - Sharon Begley - 0 views

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  • the life experiences of grandparents and even great-grandparents alter their eggs and sperm so indelibly that the change is passed on to their children, grandchildren, and beyond. It’s called transgenerational epigenetic inheritance
  • the phenomenon in which something in the environment alters the health not only of the individual exposed to it, but also of that individual’s descendants.
  • Other labs, too, are finding that experiences—everything from a lab animal being exposed to a toxic chemical to a person smoking, being malnourished in childhood, or overeating—leaves an imprint on eggs or sperm, an imprint so tenacious that it affects not only those individuals’ children but their grandchildren as well.
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  • The result raises the intriguing possibility that the childhood-obesity epidemic is at least in part due to alterations in sperm caused by fathers-to-be eating a high-fat diet. After all, while it’s fine to blame kids’ couch-potato ways and fattening diets, that does not explain why obesity in babies has risen 73 percent since 1980.
  • how good your memory is during adolescence “can be influenced by environmental stimulation experienced by one’s mother during her youth
Cammy Torgenrud

Seeking the Connectome, a Mental Map, Slice by Slice - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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shared by Cammy Torgenrud on 29 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • how memories, personality traits and skills are stored.
  • The connectome is a product of your genes and your experiences. It’s where nature meets nurture.
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