Triangulating for Stable Results Single peer-reviewed scientific studies are never enough. Scientists must compete, collaborate, and triangulate on phenomena with multiple methods in multiple labs. This produces stable results. One should ALWAYS be skeptical of the first results. Including one’s own. Skepticism and the call for follow-up studies has been rightfully applied to Jaeggi and colleagues’ study showing fluid intelligence (Gf) gains from training with the dual n-back, back in 2008: Improving fluid intelligence
The definitive guide to fasting, exercise and brain training for improved health, immunity and brain fitness. Hormesis and brain training. This extensive article provides a foundation for understanding why long-term caloric restriction (fasting), exercise and working-memory based brain training all promote health, immunity and physical and mental performance, in a way that is complementary – sharing the same biological adaptive stress response. Energetic Stressors in Evolution In the environments of our distant ancestors, food was often scarce, and energy expenditure high. Three factors
Executive High Intensity Sub 10 Minute Training At the Human Performance Institute, Division of Wellness and Prevention, Inc., in Orlando, FL, our clients are high-performing professionals from a variety of industries. These men and women face incessant demands on their time, along with the pressure to perform at high levels and balance their careers and personal lives. As the hectic pace of today’s corporate and entrepreneurial world continues to eat into the amount of time we have for
Tina Sellig, executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, wrote a stimulating and useful book- What I wish I knew when I was 20. In this book, she describes how she put the following problem to her students at Stanford: “What would you do to earn money if all you had was five dollars and two hours?” If you don’t have time to read the whole thing, just skim and read the words in bold. The Rules of the Assignment 14 teams were given
Small-world cost-efficient brain networks have been naturally selected over the course of evolution. They are largely genetically based. They become less cost-efficient with age, and cost-efficiency predicts IQ.
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