Many of you may have seen this program. At last count, it has been shown several thousand times. Almost every PBS station has repeatedly aired it. Moreover, like a bad penny, it’ll show up again, in the next pledge-break period! All of this attention stems from its success. PBS viewers have made this one of…
An important recent study reported by scientists from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Cornell and Rutgers universities (Gaab N, Gabrieli JD, Deutsch GK, Tallal P, Temple E, Restor Neurol Neurosci 25:295-310, 2007) has documented the emergence of more normal brain response patterns resulting from intensive brain plasticity-based training, in children with impairments in language and reading abilities. …
Before I talk about this misconception, if you’re new to this argument I ask you to go back and start at the beginning by reviewing misconceptions 1-3. They are described in posts made on October 7th, December 5th, and April 29th. After you read them, you’re ready for #4! Misconception 4: <strong>Cognitive fitness is all…
On Monday, I spent several hours at a Los Angeles meeting interviewing Jeff Hawkins in front of an audience of about several hundred business people. I would not ordinarily agree to take on this kind of duty, but I admire Jeff, regard him as a friend — and he asked me to do it. One…
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