Cool brain fitness graphic

From SHARP BRAINS

The State of the Brain Fitness Market: one picture, more than a
thousand words. http://twitgoo.com/d4e9

http://twitter.com/AlvaroF/status/1980586083

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On the road again traveling - blogging lite

I'm on the road again, this time for personal business. I'm in Gainesville, Fl helping my daughter and son-in-law deal with the first week of out-patient chemo for Ezra's (their two year old) just diagnosed ALL (leukemia). My role is to be older bro's (Rowan) playmate while they are off doing hospital visits and other errands.

I anticipate the 4 year old toddler will run me ragged. I return home this Saturday.

If you want to learn more about their adventure, my daughter has a very nice professional blog called Manic Mother. She is a chip of the old blog :)

I don't expect much time to blog...except for possible "push" type FYI posts re: content posted at other blogs.....or...mobile blogging (check out the link.....it is very cool...but, of course, I tend to be a tech nerd)......with pictures of activities, people, etc. at the conference.


I shall return.

Personal post: Help Ezra kick cancers ass

My two year old grandson, Ezra, was diagnosed with ALL (acute lymphoblastic leukemia) this past week. I've never used my professional blogs for personal posts...but this is an exception I must make.

My daughter Beth has a very nice "mommy" blog called Manic Mother [she is a chip off the old bog :) ]. I'm extremely proud of her. The unexpected Dx of ALL has rocked their families life. I'm doing what I can to provide support, but my daughter is seeking support from the social network of the internet.


As a personal favor to me, I'd like to ask my readers to check out my daughters post about their experience. She is seeking support. Don't respond to me. If you want to help, contact my daughter via her excellent blog. If you twitter, she can be found at @manicmother.

I'm proud of my daughter and her family.

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Sharp Brains brain fitness book

SharpBrains, the leading independent source on the rapidly growing brain fitness market, has just published its first book:

The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness:  18 Interviews with Scientists, Practical Advice, and Product Reviews, To Keep Your Brain Sharp

Check it out.

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Video games improve attention ?

Another research study suggesting video games can improve attention.
Over at MINDBLOG.

http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2009/05/enhanced-attention-skills-in-video-game.html

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BRAIN BLOGGING brain carnival #45

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http://brainblogger.com/2009/05/15/brain-blogging-forty-fifth-edition/

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Working memory summary brief by Avner Stern

I recently was sent a copy of a nice brief summary re: the construct of working memory. Consider it a nice brief fact sheet. The brief was provided by Dr. Avner Stern of Behavioral Health Specialists, a provider of the Cogmed Working Memory Training program.

This is a pass-along FYI notice to my readers. It does not represent an endorsement of the Cogmed program by me.

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Brain training glossary

Nice little definitions from. MIND360

http://www.mind360.com/scientificbackground/glossary

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Encephalon brain blog carnival #70

This is now available at SHARP BRAINS

http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2009/05/11/encephalon-70-on-mysteries-and-ilussions/

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HBO series on Alzheimers

http://www.psycport.com/showArticle.cfm?xmlFile=ap%5F2009%5F05%5F09%5Fap%2Eworldstream%2Eenglish%2Ehealth%5FD982UMKG0%5Fnews%5Fap%5Forg%2Eanpa%2Exml&provider=

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Working memory post at SHARP BRAINS

Nice overview.

http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2009/05/10/10-students-may-have-working-memory-problems-why-does-it-matter/

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Now this is a major hangover

Thanks to MIND HACKS for this unusual drinking related neurology story.

http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/05/the_morning_after_th.html

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Can kids recover from autism

This story is all over the popular press. Not my area of expertise.
Just and FYI pass along post.

http://www.child-psych.org/2009/05/more-evidence-for-autism-recovery.html

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Time estimation and alzheimers article

Click link for abstract

http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&uid=2009-02621-006

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Timing and ADHD neuropsych article

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http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&uid=2009-02621-014

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Higher IQ and better health in men

From NEWSCIENTIST

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17098-brainy-men-may-be-healthier-men.html

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Time Doc Reading Inbox: 5-7-09 (Brain rhythm research)

As I've lamented before..."so much to read...so little time." I simply can't keep up with the deluge of research publications related to the IQ Brain Clock. The diversity of fields involved in the study of human timing, time perception, mental timing, etc. is simply amazing. I download PDF articles (constantly) with good intentions...to read them and blog about those I think are important for readers of this blog. Good intentions....but lack of time (and I'm having the same problem with my other blog - IQs Corner)

Today I again cleaned out in Time Doc Reading Inbox on my hard drive. I made some decisions (often difficult) on articles that I will simply file in e-folders. I culled those I had already skimmed and blogged about. This left me with a handful of articles, book chapters, etc. that I want to skim and comment on. But I know I will find another dozen within the week.

The new Time Doc Reading Inbox (5-7-09) features articles from the special issue of Cortex that deals with brain rhythm research. Prior "inbox" postings can be find by scrolling down the right-side of this blog.

I hope some of these articles pique the interest of some readers...so much so that they will ask me for a copy of an article (or two, or.....)...and I will provide a copy in exchange for brief guest blog posts regarding the manuscripts.

Any takers? Please contact me at iap@earthlink.net if you are interested.



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Snowball the dancing bird: The academic article found

I finally found an "in press" copy of the academic article that seems to have caused the recent stir regarding Snowball the dancing bird.  See prior post re: implications for topics covered at the IQ Brain Clock.

The article the Patel et al is in process in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.  Click here to view.

Enjoy.  You gotta love science when it studies the behaviors of a dancing bird posted on YouTube.

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Developmental Psychology - Volume 45, Issue 3

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Volume 45, Issue 3

A structured observation of behavioral self-regulation and its contribution to kindergarten outcomes.

Pages 605-619

Ponitz, Claire Cameron; McClelland, Megan M.; Matthews, J. S.; Morrison, Frederick J.

The neural correlates of infant and adult goal prediction: Evidence for semantic processing systems.

Pages 620-629

Reid, Vincent M.; Hoehl, Stefanie; Grigutsch, Maren; Groendahl, Anna; Parise, Eugenio; Striano, Tricia

Children's attention to interactions directed to others: Guatemalan mayan and european american patterns.

Pages 630-641

Correa-Chávez, Maricela; Rogoff, Barbara

Neither colorblind nor oppositional: Perceived minority status and trajectories of academic adjustment among Latinos in elite higher education.

Pages 642-651

Rivas-Drake, Deborah; Mooney, Margarita

New approaches to studying problem behaviors: A comparison of methods for modeling longitudinal, categorical adolescent drinking data.

Pages 652-676

Feldman, Betsy J.; Masyn, Katherine E.; Conger, Rand D.

Alternate models of sibling status effects on health in later life.

Pages 677-687

Falbo, Toni; Kim, Sunghun; Chen, Kuan-yi

The acquisition of gender labels in infancy: Implications for gender-typed play.

Pages 688-701

Zosuls, Kristina M.; Ruble, Diane N.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Shrout, Patrick E.; Bornstein, Marc H.; Greulich, Faith K.

Processes and content of narrative identity development in adolescence: Gender and well-being.

Pages 702-710

McLean, Kate C.; Breen, Andrea V.

Learning to form a spatial category of tight-fit relations: How experience with a label can give a boost.

Pages 711-723

Casasola, Marianella; Bhagwat, Jui; Burke, Anne S.

The relations of temperament reactivity and effortful control to children's adjustment problems in China and the United States.

Pages 724-739

Zhou, Qing; Lengua, Liliana J.; Wang, Yun

Parental involvement in middle school: A meta-analytic assessment of the strategies that promote achievement.

Pages 740-763

Hill, Nancy E.; Tyson, Diana F.

The cognitive and linguistic foundations of early reading development: A Norwegian latent variable longitudinal study.

Pages 764-781

Lervåg, Arne; Bråten, Ivar; Hulme, Charles

Setting goals to switch between tasks: Effect of cue transparency on children's cognitive flexibility.

Pages 782-797

Chevalier, Nicolas; Blaye, Agnès

Longitudinal associations between emotion regulation and depression in preadolescent girls: Moderation by the caregiving environment.

Pages 798-808

Feng, Xin; Keenan, Kate; Hipwell, Alison E.; Henneberger, Angela K.; Rischall, Michal S.; Butch, Jen; Coyne, Claire; Boeldt, Debbie; Hinze, Amanda K.; Babinski, Dara E.

Goal directedness and decision making in infants.

Pages 809-819

Kenward, Ben; Folke, Sara; Holmberg, Jacob; Johansson, Alexandra; Gredebäck, Gustaf

Genetic variance in processing speed drives variation in aging of spatial and memory abilities.

Pages 820-834

Finkel, Deborah; Reynolds, Chandra A.; McArdle, John J.; Hamagami, Fumiaki; Pedersen, Nancy L.

Parent–adolescent discrepancies in adolescents' competence and the balance of adolescent autonomy and adolescent and parent well-being in the context of Type 1 diabetes.

Pages 835-849

Butner, Jonathan; Berg, Cynthia A.; Osborn, Peter; Butler, Jorie M.; Godri, Carine; Fortenberry, Katie T.; Barach, Ilana; Le, Hai; Wiebe, Deborah J.

Early math matters: Kindergarten number competence and later mathematics outcomes.

Pages 850-867

Jordan, Nancy C.; Kaplan, David; Ramineni, Chaitanya; Locuniak, Maria N.

Do perceived popular adolescents who aggress against others experience emotional adjustment problems themselves?

Pages 868-872

Rose, Amanda J.; Swenson, Lance P.

Preschoolers infer ownership from "control of permission".

Pages 873-876

Neary, Karen R.; Friedman, Ori; Burnstein, Corinna L.

Achieving a new dimension: Children integrate three stimulus dimensions in volume estimations.

Pages 877-883

Ebersbach, Mirjam

Generic language and speaker confidence guide preschoolers' inferences about novel animate kinds.

Pages 884-888

Stock, Hayli R.; Graham, Susan A.; Chambers, Craig G.

Adults' autonomic and subjective emotional responses to infant vocalizations: The role of secure base script knowledge.

Pages 889-893

Groh, Ashley M.; Roisman, Glenn I.

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Neuropsychology - Volume 23, Issue 3

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Volume 23, Issue 3

Predicting longitudinal patterns of functional deficits in children with traumatic brain injury.

Pages 271-282

Fay, Taryn B.; Yeates, Keith Owen; Wade, Shari L.; Drotar, Dennis; Stancin, Terry; Taylor, H. Gerry

Neurocognitive outcomes and recovery after pediatric TBI: Meta-analytic review of the literature.

Pages 283-296

Babikian, Talin; Asarnow, Robert

Memory efficiency and the strategic control of attention at encoding: Impairments of value-directed remembering in Alzheimer's disease.

Pages 297-306

Castel, Alan D.; Balota, David A.; McCabe, David P.

Neuropsychological impairment in patients with schizophrenia and evidence of hyponatremia and polydipsia.

Pages 307-314

Torres, Ivan J.; Keedy, Sarah; Marlow-O'Connor, Megan; Beenken, Beth; Goldman, Morris B.

Neurocognition in first-episode schizophrenia: A meta-analytic review.

Pages 315-336

Mesholam-Gately, Raquelle I.; Giuliano, Anthony J.; Goff, Kirsten P.; Faraone, Stephen V.; Seidman, Larry J.

Neuropsychological decline in frontotemporal lobar degeneration: A longitudinal analysis.

Pages 337-346

Libon, David J.; Xie, Sharon X.; Wang, Xingmei; Massimo, Lauren; Moore, Peachie; Vesely, Luisa; Khan, Alea; Chatterjee, Anjan; Coslett, H. Branch; Hurtig, Howard I.; Liang, Tsao-Wei; Grossman, Murray

Prospective memory in Parkinson disease across laboratory and self-reported everyday performance.

Pages 347-358

Foster, Erin R.; McDaniel, Mark A.; Repovš, Grega; Hershey, Tamara

Tourette's syndrome (TS): Inhibitory performance in adults with uncomplicated TS.

Pages 359-366

Channon, Shelley; Drury, Helena; Martinos, Marina; Robertson, Mary M.; Orth, Mike; Crawford, Sarah

Delay and reward choice in ADHD: An experimental test of the role of delay aversion.

Pages 367-380

Marco, Rafaela; Miranda, Ana; Schlotz, Wolff; Melia, Amanda; Mulligan, Aisling; Müller, Ueli; Andreou, Penny; Butler, Louise; Christiansen, Hanna; Gabriels, Isabel; Medad, Sheera; Albrecht, Bjorn; Uebel, Henrik; Asherson, Phillip; Banaschewski, Tobias; Gill, Michael; Kuntsi, Jonna; Mulas, Fernando; Oades, Robert; Roeyers, Herbert; Steinhausen, Hans-Christoph; Rothenberger, Aribert; Faraone, Stephen V.; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J. S.

Attention problems, inhibitory control, and intelligence index overlapping genetic factors: A study in 9-, 12-, and 18-year-old twins.

Pages 381-391

Polderman, Tinca J. C.; de Geus, Eco J. C.; Hoekstra, Rosa A.; Bartels, Meike; van Leeuwen, Marieke; Verhulst, Frank C.; Posthuma, Danielle; Boomsma, Dorret I.

Activity inhibition: A predictor of lateralized brain function during stress?

Pages 392-404

Schultheiss, Oliver C.; Riebel, Kathrin; Jones, Nicolette M.

Parallel recovery in a bilingual aphasic: A neurolinguistic and fMRI study.

Pages 405-409

Marangolo, Paolo; Rizzi, Christina; Peran, Patrice; Piras, Fabrizio; Sabatini, Umberto

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Neureoethics videos

Some interesting videos ok ethical issues in neurosciences.

http://kolber.typepad.com/ethics_law_blog/2009/05/clips-of-penn-neuroethicists.html

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Zero to three baby brain map

Interesting site on brain development in children

http://www.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_util_babybrainflash

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Brain fitness field report

Check it out from THE brain fitness source

http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2009/05/01/update-2009-market-report-finds-growth-promise-and-confusion/

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Music perception and the dancing bird

Music perception, rhythm, beat perception and production have been topics discussed at this blog as the mental or IQ Brain time clock and temporal processing seems to be intimately involved in these functions. Interestingly there is evidence from the animal kingdom that similar basic processes at play.

An interesting a fun example as a famous video clip of a dancing bird named Snowball. Watch it all...it gets very good.

Thanks to Amy Vega for sending this to me.Technorati Tags: psychology, school psychology, educational psychology, neuropsychology, cognition, intelligence, mental timing, interval timing, mind clock, IQ Brain Clock, beat perception, beat production, musc perception, rhythm perception