Thinking about Thinking, Creativity, Innovation and Design
Photo. Geralt Make a simple change to an ordinary bicycle and you might have to spent eery day for 8 months to learn to ride it. The fascinating thing is that child could probably learn it in a couple of days. A fascinating practical example of neuroplasticity is provided in the video below from Destin’s …
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Barry Smith writes in the book “This Explains Everything” that if you ask people to put lemons on a scale between fast and slow, most of us say “fast”. Why? And are oranges slow? There are several ways to explain this result. But what kind of explanation do we want? Is it enough so say …
Jeffrey Baumgartner says “creative people come in all kinds of shapes, sizes, colours and personalities. What truly distinguishes them from others is that they use more of their brains to generate ideas – which provides them with more raw material for building unique ideas – and less of their brains to regulate the development and …
Your ears… makes you hear. Or Don’t they? Can we learn to extract sensory information from unusual sensory channels? Sensory substitution is a way to work around the loss of one sense by sending information though another channel. Pushing the limits to reach new insights may require new technology. A successful project also requires a …
No one writes an article about a study showing that medicine “x” is as good as “y” when it comes to making a muscle relax. Or that there is no difference between people reading books and video games. Or that girls are just as good on some tasks as boys are. Scientific reports and ideas …
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Our brain may be designed for thinking in new ways. Ideas related to neuroplasticity and research by Elkhonon Goldberg suggest that our brain can make new neural connection and restructure neural networks. Elhononon Goldberg suggests that our brain hemisphere may have slightly different tasks to perform. The right hemisphere is activated when we are learning a …
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A burning desire to overcome learning problems mixed with a conviction that you could shape your brain, lead Barbara Arrowsmith-Young to design exercises to help her heal herself. Great discoveries are always fascinating to read about and you can learn about ways to get new ideas. But great discoveries are rarely made by a person …
Are you feeling gloomy and miserable? Neuropsychologist Richard Davidson and science writer Sharon Begley book “The Emotional Life of Your Brain” may provide you with some insight into your emotions and even give you some inspiration about ways to challenge and change your outlook on life. One hundred years ago, psychologists and biologists were interested …
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