Sentences with phrase «called brain training»

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Forget so - called «brain training» programs, which science has recently largely discredited, and instead think about taking up a simple meditation practice.

The following are claims from leading brain training products that these psychologists are calling into question:

A trained psychologist based at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he has become the leader of a relatively new field called contemplative neuroscience - the brain science of meditation.

Companies trawl the web to gather billions of images and use them to train an algorithm inspired by neurons in the brain, called a deep neural network.

During most of their training, the participants also wore a sleeve equipped with touch - technology called haptic feedback to enrich the experience and train their brains, Nicolelis said.

A subsequent study in 2003 showed such stimulation could improve a cognitive ability psychologists call motor sequence learning — the process of training the brain in the precisely sequenced steps required to interact with the world via means such as listening or executing a movement.

The researchers also were able to use models trained with data from one human subject to predict and decode the brain activity of a different human subject, a process called cross-subject encoding and decoding.

Play a computer game, boost your IQ — that's the claim made by some software companies peddling so - called brain - training programs.

So I decided to try an online brain - training program called Lumosity, which neuroscientists from Harvard, Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley have used in their own studies; its creators claim that 97 percent of users improve their memory in just 10 hours of playing time.

In a 2012 study, students trained in a mindfulness technique had a significant decrease in stress - related cortisol and an increase in signaling connections (called axons) in a part of the brain that controls emotions.

Whether it's a brisk walk in nature, yoga, or HIIT training, exercise does tons for your health — like increasing something called BDNF (brain - derived neurotrophic factor), which regenerates brain cells!

Marna Thall: Once a year, I do what's called Rewire Your Brain To Think Thin Training series where I gather together people in the area of — the different areas that personally I'm interested and I know my clients are interested in, and we do — we do training sessions for 2 weeks and it's so cool because we focus on these differenTraining series where I gather together people in the area of — the different areas that personally I'm interested and I know my clients are interested in, and we do — we do training sessions for 2 weeks and it's so cool because we focus on these differentraining sessions for 2 weeks and it's so cool because we focus on these different areas.

Green tea not only has that l - thianine that I talked about but it also has epigallocatechin in it or what's known as EGCG and some different forms of what are called epicatechins and all of these have been shown to be very potent for elevating your brain and your neuronial activity so kinda like keeping green tea coming in during the days that you're doing your speed training, that can be really helpful as well.

Aside from my battle of the brain telling me that intuitively I need animal protein, my training regime for endurance events calls for even a dose of regular red meat to insure I get plenty of iron and optimize that at altitude.

But you wouldn't do as if you had because you're not going to have the mental wherewithal, and you're not going to have that neuromuscular training and it's likely that something called the central governor in your brain — which is the part of your brain that says «Okay, I'm tired now, this is all I can do» — it's likely that that's going to kick in a little bit earlier if you haven't gotten yourself close to that marker of long - distance fatigue.

«We had more activation in areas of the brain I often call the «CEO regions»» — the frontal regions associated with executive function — «in the children who had musical training compared to others,» says Gaab.

«Merzenich's speciality [was] in improving people's ability to [rewire and redesign] the brain by training specific processing areas, called brain maps, so that they do more mental work.»

Lastly, Square Enix will have their brain training game out for testing called Mensa Academy.

Dr Kawashima's Devilish Brain Training aims to train working memory and thereby help players to hone their powers of concentration, through a selection of exercises called Devilish Training.

OpenEEG project About the project Many people are interested in what is called neurofeedback or EEG biofeedback training, a generic mental training method which makes the trainee consciously aware of the general activity in the brain.

To help both learner drivers and cyclists share the roads safely, RED Driving School has launched a campaign called Get Road REDdy, aimed at raising awareness of the importance of road safety and calling for all types of road users to «road train their brain».

When I encountered The field of brain training, also called neurofeedback, I knew I had found my life work.

hi, there's a really interesting dialogue between Richard Davidson and Daniel Goleman called «Training the Brain: Cultivating Emotional Skills» where Davidson's research is explored in light of Goleman's concepts.