Each exercise uses a specific mental ability you have and activates an important part of your brain. There are no “right or wrong” answers. Maintain and enhance your cognitive abilities based on neuroscience principles. Each exercise takes 5 minutes or less. Write down your answers or just keep them in mind. Enjoy.

Imagine you were taken into a room to meet yourself at age 18. What would you say to each other? Would you like each other? What advice would you give to each other?

Mental Ability: Introspection.

Brain Map: Limbic System and prefrontal cortex.

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Each exercise uses a specific mental ability you have and activates an important part of your brain. There are no “right or wrong” answers. Maintain and enhance your cognitive abilities based on neuroscience principles. Each exercise takes 5 minutes or less. Write down your answers or just keep them in mind. Enjoy.

Imagine that a wonderful miracle in your life happens tonight while you are sleeping. When you wake up in the morning, what is different?

Mental Ability: Imagining and enjoying fantasy.

Brain Map: Medial prefrontal cortex. Excitation of gamma brain waves called the “neural eureka” effect.

Dr. Bob’s Mental Fitness Exercises now has more than 11,000 subscribers. Tell a friend or relative or enroll them. Simply email Welcome@DrBob.com or Welcome@Brainazon.com and say “Please enroll and give your preferred Email address”. To opt out of the weekly mental exercise, just click on “Reply” and put “No Thanks” in the subject line.

Each exercise uses a specific mental ability you have and activates an important part of your brain. There are no “right or wrong” answers. Maintain and enhance your cognitive abilities based on neuroscience principles. Each exercise takes 5 minutes or less. Write down your answers or just keep them in mind. Enjoy.

How long does the last five minutes of a football game seems when your team is ahead by three points? Like clock time? Less time? More time?

Mental Ability: Time perception.

Brain Map: Prefrontal cortex; low Betabrain waves.

Dr. Bob’s Mental Fitness Exercises now has more than 11,000 subscribers. Tell a friend or relative or enroll them. Simply email Welcome@DrBob.com or Welcome@Brainazon.com and say “Please enroll and give your preferred Email address”. To opt out of the weekly mental exercise, just click on “Reply” and put “No Thanks” in the subject line.

Each exercise uses a specific mental ability you have and activates an important part of your brain. There are no “right or wrong” answers. Maintain and enhance your cognitive abilities based on neuroscience principles. Each exercise takes 5 minutes or less. Write down your answers or just keep them in mind. Enjoy.

Notice the two designs below. What is the relative size of the two inner circles in each. Is the one on the right smaller or the same size as the one on the left. Is the inner circle on the left smaller or the same size as the one on the right.

Mental Ability: Visual perception of congruence.

Brain Map:Frontal and parietal regions of the right hemisphere.

Dr. Bob’s Mental Fitness Exercises now has more than 11,000 subscribers. Tell a friend or relative or enroll them. Simply email Welcome@DrBob.com or Welcome@Brainazon.com and say “Please enroll and give your preferred Email address”. To opt out of the weekly mental exercise, just click on “Reply” and put “No Thanks” in the subject line.

Each exercise uses a specific mental ability you have and activates an important part of your brain. There are no “right or wrong” answers. Maintain and enhance your cognitive abilities based on neuroscience principles. Each exercise takes 5 minutes or less. Write down your answers or just keep them in mind. Enjoy.

Where were you and what were you doing when you learned about the 9-11 World Trade Center attack?

For our European mental fitness buffs.

Where were you and what were you doing when you learned that Princess Di was killed in a car wreck?

Mental Ability: Traumatic event recall.

Brain Map:Anterior cingulate, frontal lobes, and thalamus.

Dr. Bob’s Mental Fitness Exercises now has more than 11,000 subscribers. Tell a friend or relative or enroll them. Simply email Welcome@DrBob.com or Welcome@Brainazon.com and say “Please enroll and give your preferred Email address”. To opt out of the weekly mental exercise, just click on “Reply” and put “No Thanks” in the subject line.

Each exercise uses a specific mental ability you have and activates an important part of your brain. There are no “right or wrong” answers. Maintain and enhance your cognitive abilities based on neuroscience principles. Each exercise takes 5 minutes or less. Write down your answers or just keep them in mind. Enjoy.

Look at the following picture. Can you see the figure-ground reversal?

Mental Ability: Understanding visual stimuli.

Brain Map:Temporal cortical regions, middle frontal gyrus, putamen, and midline cerebellum.

Dr. Bob’s Mental Fitness Exercises now has more than 11,000 subscribers. Tell a friend or relative or enroll them. Simply email Welcome@DrBob.com or Welcome@Brainazon.com and say “Please enroll and give your preferred Email address”. To opt out of the weekly mental exercise, just click on “Reply” and put “No Thanks” in the subject line.

Each exercise uses a specific mental ability you have and activates an important part of your brain. There are no “right or wrong” answers. Maintain and enhance your cognitive abilities based on neuroscience principles. Each exercise takes 5 minutes or less. Write down your answers or just keep them in mind. Enjoy.

Hold an object like a pen in front of your eyes. Look at it. Then close your left eye. Then open your left eye and close your right eye. Notice how your perspective and acuity changes.

Clue: With one eyelid closed, there is no depth perception. This is true even though you know that the object you’re holding has depth.

Mental Ability: Neurobic achievement.

Brain Map:Cingulate system and neurotrophinproduction.

Dr. Bob’s Mental Fitness Exercises now has more than 11,000 subscribers. Tell a friend or relative or enroll them. Simply email Welcome@DrBob.com or Welcome@Brainazon.com and say “Please enroll and give your preferred Email address”. To opt out of the weekly mental exercise, just click on “Reply” and put “No Thanks” in the subject line.