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.

What is more important luck or intelligence?

Which person is likely to be more successful, a person who is lucky or a person who is intelligent?

Mental Ability: Understanding cause and effect.

Brain Map: The right superior temporal gyrus.

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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.

What is the best strategy for solving conflict between the US and its Allies and the Taliban?

1] Blind Attack 2] Negotiate

3] Focused Attack 4]Cooperate

5] Give Up 6]Do Nothing

Mental Ability: Choose thebest method of conflict resolution for your country.

Brain Map:dorsal anterior cingulate 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.

Some games are primarily based on luck [statistical probability ] such as roulette. Other games are primarily based on skill [intelligence and practice] such as chess. The outcome of other games, individual or team activities, are a combination of luck and skill such as football.

Which type of games do you prefer to play or watch, games of chance or skill or both? Why?

Mental Ability: Insight into what activities stimulate us and give us pleasure and why.

Brain Map: Stimulating the nucleus accumbens, ventral pallidum and brainstem.

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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.

100 billion dollars in child support is currently owed by obligated parents. This represents 62% of the income of single recipient parents below the poverty line. The lack of child support also crimps the chance of middle class parents with limited funds to provide needed educational and cultural opportunities for their kids.

Why do some separated or divorced parents refuse to pay child support: poor values, personality disorders or because they question their status as a parent? What do you think?

Mental Ability:Ethical and moral decision making.

Brain Map:Ventromedial area of the brain and the amygdala.

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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.

The storm Sandy wrought havoc on the eastern seaboard of the US; Katrina devastated New Orleans, Ike inundated Galveston Island.

Do you think these calamities are caused by climate change due to the emission of fossil fuels into the atmosphere? Or do you think it is the result of normal variations in our solar system?

Mental Ability: Problem solving.

Brain Map: 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.

What are some of the most important reasons why people pray? What are the likely subjects of their prayers? How do people feel when they pray?

Mental Ability: Consider transcendental experience

Brain Map: Excitation in the temporal lobe and fronto-parietal network

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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.

In divorce cases, pets have always been considered property. The times are changing. Now they are considered members of the family. Courts are ordering arrangements for dogs and catsfollowing divorce like “sole custody”, “shared custody” and setting out “periods of possession”. Some Courts let the pets be on the same schedule of possession as the children of divorce. Other Courts are ordering “pet support” as they do child support or alimony. What do you think about this?

Mental Ability: Legal reasoning involving evidence and social policy.

Brain Map: Caudate and posterior cingulate and the para hippocampal gyrus.

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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.

Storing and presenting information has evolved from cave drawingsand hieroglyphics, to oral histories and handwritten documents, to printed books and recently to the digital format. How do you feel about this? How are you getting along with the change?

Lots of kids don’t want to learn how to write. They say “we don’t need it and we will never do it.” What do you think about this development?

Mental Ability: Adapting to change.

Brain Functions: Neuroplasticity.NuerotransmittersDopamine and Serotonin.

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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.

Look at these examples of children’s art. What do you think the kids are trying to express?

Mental Ability: Interpreting emotions visually.

Brain Map: Frontal Orbital Cortex and Limbic System.

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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.

What do you think about the quilts shown below? They were made by the Women of Gees Bend. They are the artistically untrained children of Mississippi slaves. Their materials were remnants of clothes and farm bags. The quilts are on national tour of American Museums.

Mental Ability: Artistic appreciation.

Brain Map: V 1 Cortex and Limbic System

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