Brain Exercise [Bronze Award] No.24

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?

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Mental Ability: Understanding visual stimuli.

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

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Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.11

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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Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.10

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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Brain Exercise [Bronze Award] No.22

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.

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Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.9

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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Brain Exercise [Bronze Award] No.20

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.

Describe the taste of a hamburger and a salad with your favorite dressing.

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Mental Ability: Recall sensory information.

Brain Map: Caudo lateral cortex and the limbic system.

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Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.8

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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Brain Exercise [Bronze Award] No.19

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 it is a year from now and you are thinking back on your best achievements in 2012. What plans will you need on January 1, to make these accomplishments happen?

Mental Ability: Imaginative thinking and planning.

Brain Map: Preferential right hippocampal engagement; and right cerebral hemisphere.

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Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.7

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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Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.6

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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