Pushups for Your Brain
Improving brain function is not just a fad for MENSA aspirants anymore, it's big news and the scientific community involved means business. Here are four innovative ways to test your own brain function, and help improve your cognitive ability and workplace productivity. Be sure to check them out and share them with clients, colleagues, and friends.
Psychometrics measures cognitive performance in areas like reaction time, executive function, and verbal learning. First, you take a battery of tests to see your current cognitive performance; then you introduce and track a new behavior, called "interventions" to understand whether it helps or hurts your thinking. The intervention can include changes to work routine, diet, even what time you drink coffee or smoke a cigarette. www.quantified-mind.com/about
Brain Training involves playing simple games that build your memory, problem solving abilities, and other cognitive functions that are critical to professional work environments. www.lumosity.com
Neurofeedback tools require users to wear an EEG headband with small sensors that track brain waves. The devices are wireless and create real-time analytics with your PC or smartphone, measuring how deeply you focus on any given job task, helping you monitor and minimize distraction and stay in a productive state longer. www.axioinc.com/the-product.
Nudgers are mobile apps or online tools that ping you with reminder questions such as, "When was the last time you drank a glass of water?" or "Did you take a walk today?" Behavioral researchers have long realized people often don't do what they say they want to do. Nudgers can be one way to make sure you keep your New Year's resolution, or any other new habit you'd like to build.www.beeminder.com
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