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Chemicals for Creativity
Improving creativity can be an important part of getting better brain skills. But did you know that certain chemicals found in your brain could enhance creativity?...
Fight or Flight: Coping with Danger
You're walking home late at night down a dark deserted street, when you think you hear footsteps behind you. Or you're a business man on your way to a critical meeting...
How Does Language Acquisition Happen?
At birth, human brains and chimpanzee brains are about the same size. The chimp's brain expands about 28% by adulthood, while a human brain expands...
How Your Memory Works
On your first day at a new job you walk into a room full of new people. The next day who are you most likely to remember? Probably your new boss, the man who made you...
Learning Another Language
If you speak three languages you're trilingual. If you speak one you're English. It sounds clichéd, but unfortunately the statistics bear this out. About 10% of UK...
Learning Motor Skills
Newborn infants can move their arms, legs, hands and feet around, mainly in a reflexive manner with little conscious control over starting or stopping. Children need to...
Left and Right Brain Working Together
For almost 100 years, the science of the mind (psychology), developed separately from the science of the brain (neuroscience). Psychology dealt with...
Left Brain vs. Right: What's the Difference?
In 1981 the Nobel laureate Roger Sperry pioneered the study of split-brain patients and discovered some astounding things about how our brains work....
Solving Problems With Fluid Intelligence
Solving problems is something we do every single day even when we aren't aware we are doing it! It's not just a case of dealing with a stressful...
Understanding High Speed Brains
Improving our brain skills and intelligence means we have to look to genetics as one part of why some people seem to have high speed brains. In fact, a recent study...
When Language Acquisition Goes Wrong
Most children start babbling and understanding words around age one. Between age two and three their vocabulary and grammar improve in leaps and bounds with periods of...
