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Old August 21st, 2014 #1
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Post Men finally taught how to think.. by women! "Men can multi-task - but only if they're taught how by 'brain training'"

A team of scientists, led by a woman, have investigated art of multi-tasking

They discovered ways to train the brain in how to do it

Findings could help improve mental ability of elderly

| Updated: 11:22 EST, 20 August 2014

Women often joke that they have their man 'well-trained' but now males really could be taught the art of multi-tasking.

It's a skill that the female gender are known for excelling at while men often struggle to do more than one thing at a time.

Now a team of scientists, led by a woman, have revealed the science behind the cliché by identifying the area of the brain involved in multi-tasking - and ways to train it.

Researchers found that the brain's function can be improved when multi-tasking by alternating the amount of attention given to jobs, rather than people trying to complete two tasks equally at the same time.

Jokes about the differences in the sexes aside, the researchers say the findings are important because they could help older people train their brains to prevent a decline in mental ability.

The lead researcher of the study said that the way certain areas of the brain works need to be understood more, because it had long been a mystery how targeted training and brain function relate.

Dr Sylvie Belleville, research director at the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (IUGM) and a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Montreal, Canada, said: 'To improve your cardiovascular fitness, most people know you need to run laps on the track and not work on your flexibility. But the way targeted training correlates to cognition has been a mystery for a long time.

'Our work shows that there is also an association between the type of cognitive training performed and the resulting effect. This is true for healthy seniors who want to improve their attention or memory and is particularly important for patients who suffer from damage in specific areas of the brain.

'We therefore need to better understand the ways to activate certain areas of the brain and target this action to get specific results.'

The findings were published across two papers in AGE and PLOS ONE. The scientists were conducting the research to discover if games that promise to improve the brain's multi-tasking ability, are truly effective and how they work on the brain.

In one of the studies, 48 seniors were randomly allocated to training that either worked on brain plasticity and attentional control or only involved simple practice.

Brain plasticity refers to its ability to change function over time and attentional control is an individual's capacity to choose what they pay attention to and what they ignore.

Stay sharp: The findings could help prevent a decline in mental ability as we age

Researchers used functional MRI scans to evaluate the impact of this training on various types of attentional tasks and on brain function.

The team discovered that targeted training on plasticity and attentional control helped the participants develop their ability to multi-task.

However, performing two tasks simultaneously was not what improved this skill, according to the researchers.

They said that for the exercises, the research participants instead had to modulate the amount of attention given to each task.

They were first asked to devote 80 per cent of their attention to 'task A' and 20 per cent to 'task B' and then change the ratio to 50:50 or 20:80. The scientists said that this training was the only type that increased functioning in the middle prefrontal region, or the area known to be responsible for multitasking abilities and whose activation decreases with age.

The researchers said they used this data to create a predictive model of the effects of cognitive training on the brain based on the subjects' characteristics.

The IUGM and University of Montreal research team said that the ability to multi-task decreases with age, which makes it harder for seniors to keep up, causes them stress, and decreases their confidence.

However, Dr Belleville said the findings can be used to help improve the daily lives of ageing adults and people who suffer from brain damage.

She added that researchers are now better able to map the effects on the functioning of very specific areas of the brain. But asked if scientists will eventually be able to adapt the structure of our brains through highly targeted training, she replied: 'We have a long road ahead to get to that point, and we don't know for sure if that would indeed be a desirable outcome.

'However, our research findings can be used right away to improve the daily lives of aging adults as well as people who suffer from brain damage.'

read full article at source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...-training.html
 
Old August 21st, 2014 #2
Sean Gruber
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So these "I am the standard of perfection" bitches equate the male brain and the senile brain.

Let's see them drill down like a man can.

These bitches may only have been making a "joke" (as the article tries to suggest) while their actual focus was on senility, but let a real researcher speak on man/woman brains.

Professor Richard Lynn:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...hard-Lynn.html
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