Sentences with phrase «used brain training»

I created Bulletproof almost a decade ago as a personal account of how I lost 100 pounds with a high - fat diet and minimal exercise and used brain training techniques to improve my performance, all while sleeping less than 5 hours a night.

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A group of University of Illinois psychologists reviewed all the scientific papers that brain training companies use to market the proven success of their brain training apps and games.

You can train your brain to use this subconscious activity to think positively and accomplish more throughout your day.

«When you tell your audience a story, the brain lights up like a freaking pinball machine,» says communication expert Leslie Ehm, who uses the principles of neuroscience in her leadership and presentation training with executives.

Conversely, if you habitually use fuzzy, ill - defined words crammed into long and convoluted sentences, you're training your brain — and the brains of your team members — to think less clearly.

When you train yourself to speak and write using clearly defined words arranged into concise sentences, you're training your brain to think more clearly.

This acclimation process gives the software a chance to record your brain waves and trains you to use them consistently before it throws a series of increasingly difficult challenges at you, such as reconstructing simply via thought a fallen bridge needed for a mystical journey while a fiery sky changes hue in response to your emotional state.

At U of T and elsewhere, labs are running brain - fitness training experiments, hoping to teach focus and the use of more of the brain.

As we use routines to specifically guide students through instructions, they can train their brains to listen for certain cues and follow along.

Brain - wave biofeedback training involving learning to increase one's alpha waves (associated with a relaxed, tranquil feeling state) has been used with some success in treating neuroses, psychoses, and behavior problems.

Dr. Nina Kraus, a groundbreaking neuroscientist at Northwestern University, has been studying the effects of music training on brain development — with the use of non-invasive approaches in humans — and on the development of language skills.

While the theoretical principles guiding the use of the NBO and the accompanying training program, include many of the conceptual themes that informed our work with the NBAS, they are influenced by theoretical and clinical principles from the fields of infant mental health, child development, brain development, behavioral pediatrics, systems theory, communication studies, nursing, early intervention and cultural studies, among its influences.

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.

«But we could improve their software by training their brain to reallocate attentional resources to make better use of their periphery vision.»

The 18 - week study of 318 healthy young adults found that combining physical exercise and mild electric brain stimulation with computer - based cognitive training promoted skill learning significantly more than using cognitive training alone.

University of Adelaide researchers have shown that it is possible for stroke patients to improve motor function using special training involving connecting brain signals with a computer.

In later endeavors, Nicolelis trained rhesus monkeys to use brain - machine interfaces to control robotic limbs, and later, the 3 - D movements of an avatar — animated versions of themselves on a digital screen.

The team has used meta - analysis before to show that brain training is useful in other populations, such as healthy older adults and those with Parkinson's disease.

In a new study, researchers based at Osaka University reported on their use of brain - machine interface (BMI) training with a robotic hand on 10 phantom limb patients to investigate the association between changes in symptomatic pain and cortical currents during phantom hand movements.

Rather than focusing on how games such as World of Warcraft or the socialnetworking services of Twitter and Facebook change our brains, Davidson believes we should foster these newfound skills, building curricula around interactive multiplayer games and training workers using virtual environments.

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.

A trained athlete's brain is a marvel of efficiency, using fewer neurons to move faster, calculate better — and make better decisions.

The largest trial to date of «brain - training» computer games suggests that people who use the software to boost their mental skills are likely to be disappointed.

Now, a study that used noninvasive brain imaging to evaluate brain activity has found that simulator - trained medical students successfully transferred those skills to operating on cadavers and were faster than peers who had no simulator training.

During HIIT training, e.g. ketones and lactates are being formed which the brain can use as a source of energy.

Scientists already employ fMRI, which uses changes in blood flow as a proxy for brain activity, to scan the brains of restrained monkeys, but Berns wanted to train dogs to willingly enter the machine and learn simple things, such as associating a hand signal with a reward of a hot dog, all the while staying still enough to collect interpretable brain scans.

One of the two brain - training methods most scientists use in research is significantly better in improving memory and attention, Johns Hopkins University researchers found.

EEGs taken before and after the training showed that the biggest changes occurred in the brains of the group that trained using the «dual n - back» method.

Rokers says showing the effects of teaching people to use cues to three - dimensional motion that they are otherwise ignoring may ultimately help refine treatment for vision disorders such as blind spots or amblyopia («lazy eye») in which the brain can be trained to compensate for perceptual limitations.

This suggests that strong positive expectations about brain - training apps may be the driving force behind people buying and using them.

People with high expectations about brain - training apps before their use, still had these positive feelings after they had used them.

However, the study, which found that cost of the apps were the primary barrier to their use, also revealed that consumers were concerned about the uncertainty of the claims of their «brain - training» capacity.

«That the positive perceptions of users of brain training apps did not change greatly before and after their use raises concerns about the role of expectations and even marketing in influencing how people experience these apps,» says Dr. Torous.

This study looked into the modulatory effects that musical training could have on the use of the different sides of the brain when performing music and language tasks.»

As professionals working in this area, we use personalized computer - based brain - training protocols to help children and adults improve targeted skills.

This ongoing study, the PACt - MD study, combines brain training exercises and brain stimulation, using a mild electrical current to stimulate brain cells and improve learning and memory.

And resistance training, building muscle strength using external resistance, has been shown to not only improve memory and executive function in older adults, but to also maintain connective brain tissue.

He received his Ph.D. in biomedical signal processing from UBC and is using this training to develop a direct brain - computer interface.

Leonardo Cohen, at the US National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, who was not involved in the study, thinks the next step should instead be to use the existing scanning method to train individuals to enter good brain states of their own accord, by rewarding them when they do.

The team of clinical neuropsychologists at Saarland University have used this training programme on eleven stroke patients, nine patients with brain trauma injury and four hypoxia patients.

New research shows that playing video games trains the brain to make better and faster use of visual input.

This task has been used in several studies showing recruitment of the medial temporal lobe during navigation.28 - 30 The study was performed in accordance with the protocol (available at NEJM.org), which includes mention of a test of deep - brain stimulation during egocentric training; we have yet to carry out this part of the protocol.

In order to assess the effectiveness of using phonics the researchers trained adults to read in a new language, printed in unfamiliar symbols, and then measured their learning with reading tests and brain scans.

Future work by the group will focus on testing the effectiveness of CAST training in a larger sample using neurophysiological measures to examine how the training affects brain systems.

As part of his training he became involved in neuroscience research; in particular he was part of group that was using new imaging techniques to see how different parts of the brain worked together in real time.

«This is a training technique and brain exercises using only fMRI and a set of tasks,» Imamizu said.

Now, if he was a more experienced athlete, he would harness far more positive results in term of brain function, as shown by other studies that have used a more efficient systematic progression in the training routines, applied to subjects with intermediate or advanced levels of experience with training.

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.

Biofeedback techniques use technology to give you real - time measurements on things like your heart rate, palm temperature, and brain waves — training you to use your thoughts to manipulate your physical body.

«Both before and after meditation training, study participants» brain activity was examined using a special type of imaging - arterial spin labeling magnetic resonance imaging (ASL MRI)- that captures longer duration brain processes, such as meditation, better than a standard MRI scan of brain function.