Thinking Clearly and Analytically

Visuospatial skills are used everyday in many ways, ranging from going from one room to another in your house to solving a jigsaw puzzle and navigating in a new city.
Let’s take an example. Can you picture in your head an arrow pointing to the right?

Think back to the last argument you had with someone. Did it end poorly? Did you change the other person’s perspective? Did you change your own beliefs?

College students who take notes on laptop computers are more likely to record lecturers’ words verbatim and are thus less likely to mentally absorb what’s being said, according to a series of experiments by Pam A.

An excellent article at the Times, Who Gets to Graduate, explores new thinking and tools to help college students succeed.

Paying mindful attention to one's food leads people to eat less but savor it more
-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientists use video games to explain how the brain interprets the world around us. 
-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

How many times have you been in a brainstorming session this week? Chances are the answer is, “More than I can count.” But no study has proven that brainstorming works well, even though it has been the go-to method for idea generation since 1953.

Online cognitive training is a recent innovation, but it comes from a storied past. In 1983, Space Fortress became one of the first computer-controlled games to be created by researchers in a cognitive lab.

Have you ever experienced a situation at work where someone has made a bad decision and the company decides that a new policy is the solution?

Access to the world’s largest online learning platform devoted to building critical thinking skills is now available for purchase on Amazon!

Time for Sharp­Brains’ May 2014 e-newsletter.

Walking, eating, discussing a book…all of these things seem very natural and easy, but in truth, each and every one is done through a series of functions that the brain performs.

The cost of poor communication in organizations is very high. In a 2008 whitepaper by IDC, the cost of employee misunderstanding and poor communication in US and UK businesses was estimated at US$37 billion!

Even when organizations have great ideas, they fail to transform their creative ideas into results that market demands. Creative ideas need to be complemented with critical thinking.

Brain Training And The End Of The Prozac Generation (Forbes):
“According to the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH), more than 57 million people, or 26% of the U.S. population suffer from some form of mental health problem.