Tag: Cognitive Stuff
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Why we should peek at the back of the book now and again.
This article was on Fark the other day and it’s got a link to the U of A as well (a non study affiliated commentator), so it’s doubly blessed in my books… and here is my take. It talks about how our minds think in reverse when it comes to solving a problem (I know…
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Game for a younger brain?
The Globe and Mail as an article with an interesting look at bilingualism and gaming: A body of research suggests that playing video games provides benefits similar to bilingualism in exercising the mind. Just as people fluent in two languages learn to suppress one language while speaking the other, so too are gamers adept at…
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More Violence and Games…
Bruce Bartholow from the University of Missouri-Columbia has just released a study (PR) that shows what he calls a causal link (New Scientist) between playing violent games and the “dulling of the senses” if you will to real life depictions of violence and it’s enactment. Of course there are people on both sides of the…
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ADD & NASA
I saw this on C|Net today and besides using two of my favourite games (Ratchet and Clank, Burnout) and being very similar to the Alert program aka “How does your engine run” (based on How Does Your Engine Run? A Leader’s Guide to the Alert Program for Self-Regulation (Williams & Shellenberger, 1996) I have noticed…
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Child/Technology Paradox
Reading my various feeds this morning due to a very early start, I came across this article by Lowell Monke, Charlotte’s Webpage: Why children shouldn’t have the world at their fingertips. Monke’s bio states “Lowell Monke, who has taught young people with and about computers for seventeen years, currently gets paid by Wittenberg University to…