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Tero Toivanen

Cognitive Daily: A quick eye-exercise can improve your performance on memory tests (but... - 1 views

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 18 Apr 09 - Cached
  • If you're taking a test of rote memorization, like words from a list, move your eyes from side to side for about 30 seconds before you start.
  • It may be that this quick activity helps facilitate interaction between the brain hemispheres.
  • any activity that encourages communication between the hemispheres is likely to increase recall.
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  • people who have poorer interactions between the hemispheres should benefit more than others. Who has less interactions between hemispheres? People who are strongly right-handed.
  • Strongly right-handed students remembered significantly more words if they moved their eyes compared to keeping their eyes still. Non-strongly-right-handed students (including left-handers) remembered the same number of words regardless of whether they moved their eyes before the test.
  • strongly right-handed students had significantly fewer false alarms after they moved their eyes back and forth. But for non-strongly-right-handed people, the reverse occurred; moving their eyes caused them to falsely remember more words. So overall, while the eye-saccade exercise helped right-handers, for lefties and for those who didn't have a strongly dominant hand, the exercise actually harmed their performance.
  • You might think that only side-to-side movement would improve performance, but Lyle's team found that moving your eyes up and down caused the same effect.
  • researchers say that other studies have shown that any eye movements increase bilateral activity in the frontal eye field, so it's still possible that hemispheric connectivity can explain the improved performance after eye movements.
  • So why doesn't the exercise work the same way for left-handers? Left handers (and ambidextrous individuals) already have a high level of hemispheric connectivity. Lyle's team speculates that there might be such a thing as too much connectivity, which results in a decrease in performance.
Tero Toivanen

YouTube - alien hand syndrome - 0 views

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alien hand syndrome

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    Woman with alien hand syndrome.
Tero Toivanen

How The Brain Rewires Itself - TIME - 1 views

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 05 Apr 09 - Cached
  • What the scientists found was that after a week of practice, the stretch of motor cortex devoted to these finger movements took over surrounding areas like dandelions on a suburban lawn.
  • He extended the experiment by having another group of volunteers merely think about practicing the piano exercise. They played the simple piece of music in their head, holding their hands still while imagining how they would move their fingers. Then they too sat beneath the TMS coil.
  • they glimpsed a revolutionary idea about the brain: the ability of mere thought to alter the physical structure and function of our gray matter. For what the TMS revealed was that the region of motor cortex that controls the piano-playing fingers also expanded in the brains of volunteers who imagined playing the music--just as it had in those who actually played it.
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  • the discovery showed that mental training had the power to change the physical structure of the brain.
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    -they glimpsed a revolutionary idea about the brain: the ability of mere thought to alter the physical structure and function of our gray matter. For what the TMS revealed was that the region of motor cortex that controls the piano-playing fingers also expanded in the brains of volunteers who imagined playing the music--just as it had in those who actually played it.
Hypnosis Training Academy

How to Induce Hypnotic Trance with the Igor Ledochowski Handshake Induction - 0 views

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    It almost seems unlikely that in any kind of situation you walk up to someone, shake their hand, and voila! They are in trance. But no matter how hard it is to believe, that's exactly what the handshake induction is designed to do. This induction is incredibly effective when when time isn't on your side, or when you're after an effective and instant way to bypass a particularly resistant critical factor. And while it might appear to be some unbelievable magic trick, it's actually very simple to perform. Especially when you have the right technique. Check out the infographic here for a breakdown of master hypnotist Igor Ledochowski's very own 8-step handshake induction technique.
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Hypnosis: Who Is Susceptible? How To Spot Highly-Hypnotizable People - 0 views

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  • Hypnosis Training Academy on 02 May 17
     
    According to professor David Spiegel MD, about 25% of people cannot be hypnotized. It's thought that roughly between 5-10% of people are highly susceptible to hypnotic suggestion, while up to 79% of the population are considered moderately susceptible. These numbers suggest that hypnotists have a good chance of hypnotizing most people that they meet. However, the real challenge is to spot those who are considered to be "highly-hypnotizable." That's where street hypnotists may have the upper hand. To weave their magic, they have to act fast. They only have seconds to make an impression. Interested to find out how they do this? Check out this informative article that reveals how to quickly spot highly-hypnotizable people and to find out the 5 most common reasons hypnosis fails.
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