Sentences with word «brains»

How we approach situations and the things we do to feed our brains can significantly improve our mental horsepower.

We are drawn to images as they can represent a message quickly and simply without our brains having to read reels of text.

When Stanford researchers recently peered into the brains of students to see how attitude affects achievement, they found something startling.

As for the knowledge sector, our brains may not even be wired to focus for that long.

Spade and Sperduti instead retreated to a downtown storefront and turned the front of the shop into a tour of their eccentric brains.

Our gadgets also force our brains to stay active when they really need relaxation time to distress before bedtime.

«The preponderance of young men engaging in these deadly, evil, and stupid acts of violence may be a result of brains that have yet to fully developed,» Howard Forman, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, told my colleague Chris Weller.

A widely shared report from 2011 showed that Apple products actually triggered the parts of their fans» brains normally associated with religion.

But given the similarities between rat and human brains, there is every reason to believe human mothers benefit from a similar sharpening of perception, motivation, and problem - solving skills after giving birth.

It's a memorization strategy that takes advantage of something our brains are really good at: visualization.

Our brains are very good at remembering spacial information, so if you can imagine yourself walking through a place you know well, you can deposit the images of cards you are memorizing along the way.

While our brains certainly contribute to the process, we can't find our true purpose without stepping out of our analytical minds and connecting to what viscerally expands us and inspires us to take action.

Those who gave away money showed a particular pattern of activity in their brains, but that wasn't the most interesting part of the findings.

But perhaps the most heartening part of the piece is the beginning, which kicks off with a look at recent science of what giving birth does to the brains of female rats.

Goal - setting actually changes the chemistry of our brains, and studies have shown that that activity can increase motivation and boost achievement levels by approximately 30 percent.

Elon Musk is the brains behind big companies, like SpaceX and Tesla Motors, so it's no surprise he likes reading about another successful multitasker, Benjamin Franklin.

Business workshops work well in the morning because they help attendees turn on their brains for the rest of the day.

As we our bombarded with information our brains sift through the small percentage that is necessary for our cognitive functions, or in other words the things that require us to think about, for instance, reading.

Some big brains believe Barnes is right: Farmers Edge recently raised nearly $ 60 million in equity investments to help support aggressive international expansion, and the company has recruited former Monsanto, DuPont and Canadian Wheat Board executives into its fold.

It creates anticipation in the listener and actually synchronizes people's brains.

Once you are able to understand how their brains work, your general marketing practices such as determining influencer value and selecting specific execution channels, can come into play.

After six months of training, the subjects showed not only improved cognitive function, but even growth in key areas of their brains.

In addition to running these «sub-routines» our brains must sort through tons of information that it receives and routes some of it to our conscious minds while filing most of it away in our subconscious where it is compared by the nervous system against our «database of danger.»

Two thermometers into corporate brains plunged to depth not seen since the trough of the financial crisis when the US was losing hundreds of thousands of jobs a month.

Recent research from the Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology at Friedrich Schiller University in Germany found that exposure to stimuli that cause strong negative emotions — the same kind of exposure you get when dealing with difficult people — caused subjects» brains to have a massive stress response.

Our brains are remarkably good at some things, like pattern - matching, and we certainly do have a capacity for logic and reason.

Now artificial intelligence and machine learning is replacing parts of our brains — the logical, linear part.

The results show that it isn't only superagers» brains that look different from those of regular seniors — so do their social calendars.

Most of the information our brains receive comes to us through our subconscious.

My guess is that most CMOs and CEOs never thought they would be looking to teenagers for advice on their brand or how to create a relevant, dynamic and lasting relationship with their brand, but if that is your audience, then it certainly makes sense to understand how teenagers» brains work.

Adult brains actually do grow new brain cells through the incredible process of neurogenesis, improving your memory, stabilizing your mood, and boosting your ability to handle stress.

Recent research from the Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology at Friedrich Schiller University in Germany found that exposure to stimuli that cause strong negative emotions - the same kind of exposure you get when dealing with toxic people - caused subjects» brains to have a massive stress response.

Whenever our bodies perceive danger our brains activate the «flight or fight» reflex.

«The more brains you can pick in the formation of your venture, the higher the chances of its success.»

The book provides a real appreciation for how our brains work that I find massively applicable in both my work and personal life.

Take a guess and you're likely to come up with something like talent, brains, grit, even luck or connections.

It followed 100 people aged 55 to 86 as they pursued a specific fitness regime, measuring the effects on their brains through tests and MRI scans.

The truth of the matter is that our brains, from a fundamental development perspective, actually can't do it, which is why we become so distracted.

«People who are successful have learned to optimize their brains,» Brown says.

One of his recent posts is a must read for those who suspect they should make more time in their lives to nourish their brains, but still need a bit of a kick in the pants.

Through a concerted effort on the part of our brains we gather as much information as we can as quickly as we can.

Those nonverbals register in our brains as signals of trust or distrust in about 100 milliseconds or less.»

Here, although two marked squares are exactly the same color, our brains don't perceive them this way.

If they are successful, this means that neural motes can not only monitor health, but actively serve as electroceutical therapies to treat brain disorders such as epilepsy.

«Beyond giving us so much data to explore,» said Perlis, «being able to show that depression is a brain disease, that there is biology associated with it, I think that's really critical for people to understand.»

He eventually plans to merge his robotics brain with clothing design to put sensors into apparel that both could measure a person's vital signs and the conditions of his or her surroundings.

The biggest category, the «brain» customers, are the most analytical folks, and the ones you need to pay the most attention to.

If you are someone who works with your brain, you can never really retire and you shouldn't.

Research shows your brain's internal clock runs more slowly as you age — which means the pace of life appears to speed up.

But one big challenge is structural: the blood - brain barrier (BBB).