Tags: Cognitive Training

Physical training has obvious counters. The weight on the bar changes, the distance on the watch changes, the clock moves. Mental training does not. There is no agreed conversion from minutes of [...] Read more

Networks of Mind A brain scan is an image full of colour and contrast, designed to look alive with signal. Bright reds and blues sit across a rendered brain, and it is easy to walk away thinking [...] Read more

Neuroplasticity Elena, a violinist, has been practising the same difficult passage for six years. On her first attempt her fingers stumble, the bow screeches, and the notes blur. Three years later [...] Read more

Before a job interview, a concert performance, or a difficult conversation you have been avoiding, the mind begins to run through the event in advance. You picture yourself walking into the room. You [...] Read more

The traffic light turns red and the driver behind you begins honking. Your shoulders tighten. Your breath quickens. For a moment the only thought is move already, and the impulse to press the [...] Read more

A potter sits at her wheel, shaping wet clay into something that did not exist before. A software developer stares at a bug that refuses to yield to the obvious fixes. A parent tries to explain why [...] Read more

You are in the middle of a conversation. Someone is explaining a problem at work, and you are following along, trying to understand. Then someone mentions a topic you had been thinking about since [...] Read more

The coffee shop across the street has a small whiteboard where the owner writes a single question each morning. "What is the difference between being busy and being productive?" it reads one Tuesday. [...] Read more