RE: iPost: Hand clapping to music improves cognitive functioning

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Very interesting research report. The similarity to synchronized 
metronome tapping (SMT) interventions might suggest similar cognitive 
processing re brain rhythm based treatments and the IQ Brain Clock.

NeuropathLrng: Hand-clapping songs improve motor and cognitive skills, 
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iPost: Hand clapping to music improves cognitive functiongi

Very interesting research report. The similarity to synchronized
metronome tapping (SMT) interventions might suggest similar cognitive
processing re brain rhythm based treatments and the IQ Brain Clock.

NeuropathLrng: Hand-clapping songs improve motor and cognitive skills,
research shows: http://bit.ly/diVemi

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iPost: Brain fitness for all

New resource from SHARP BRAINS

http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2010/04/26/new-resource-brain-fitness-for-all/

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iPost: Charlie Rose online brain video series

Thanks to MIND HACKS for the FYI at link below

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Is the Mozart effect dead?

Pietschniig, J., Voracek, M., & Formann, A. (in press).  Mozart effect–Shmozart effect: A meta-analysis, Intelligence.

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The transient enhancement of performance on spatial tasks in standardized tests after exposure to the first movement “allegro con spirito” of the Mozart sonata for two pianos in D major (KV 448) is referred to as the Mozart effect since its first observation by Rauscher, Shaw, and Ky (1993). These findings turned out to be amazingly hard to replicate, thus leading to an abundance of conflicting results. Sixteen years after initial publication we conduct the so far largest, most comprehensive, and up-to-date meta-analysis (nearly 40 studies, over 3000 subjects), including a diversity of unpublished research papers to finally clarify the scientific record about whether or not a specific Mozart effect exists. We could show that the overall estimated effect is small in size (d = 0.37, 95% CI [0.23, 0.52]) for samples exposed to the Mozart sonata KV 448 and samples that had been exposed to a non-musical stimulus or no stimulus at all preceding spatial task performance. Additionally, calculation of effect sizes for samples exposed to any other musical stimulus and samples exposed to a non-musical stimulus or no stimulus at all yielded effects similar in strength (d = 0.38, 95% CI [0.13, 0.63]), whereas there was a negligible effect between the two music conditions (d = 0.15, 95% CI [0.02, 0.28]). Furthermore, formal tests yielded evidence for confounding publication bias, requiring downward correction of effects. The central finding of the present paper however, is certainly the noticeably higher overall effect in studies performed by Rauscher and colleagues than in studies performed by other researchers, indicating systematically moderating effects of lab affiliation. On the whole, there is little evidence left for a specific, performance-enhancing Mozart effect.

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iPost: Sharp Brains 2010 brain fitness report executive brief

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iPost: Research links SES level to prefrontal cortex brain development

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NeuropathLrng: How poverty can affect children's developing brains:

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Brain training fitness wars begin

A small brain fitness war started this week, with the opening (and negative) salvo the report of a large-scale BBC study reported at the BPS Blog (Brain training games don't work).  Of course, the report caught on with a number of stories in various media (Nature release;  Wall Street Journal).

IMHO, the best response, with many valid criticisms of the research, comes from the best brain training fitness source on the net....Sharp Brains.  Be sure to read their response prior to forming an opinion.  I tend to side with Sharp Brains on this debate.

Technorati Tags: educational psychology, school psychology, neuropsychology, cognition, intelligence, brain fitness, brain training, Sharp Brains, cognitive enhancement

iPost: Big media day for brain fitness tomorrow?

AlvaroF: Brain Training @ BBC/ Nature: Fact, Hope, Hype?: Tomorrow
we'll probably witness a lot of media coverage about a e...

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More on brain synchrony and brain rhythms

Yet another research report linking working memory and sychronization of brain rhythms across neural networks in the brain.  Brain synchrony.  Brain rhythm.  Concepts the seem to be surfacing repeatedly in research from a number of brain-based disciplines.

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iPost: 50 neurology blogs

Neuromodulation: 50 blogs for neurology students http://j.mp/dntQlc

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iPost: PEBS neuroethics roundup

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iPost: PNAS issue on neural synchrony and working memory

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