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To tool or not to tool? (Universität Wien)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Jun 2016
Flexible tool use is closely associated to intelligent mental processes such as the ability to plan actions ... Nevertheless, some types of tool use can be controlled by much simpler processes that are a part of the respective animal's inborn behavioural repertoire....

"Digital neurotherapeutic" in development at the UC Davis MIND Institute (UC Davis Health System)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
A UC Davis researcher has created a video game for children who experience cognitive impairments from genetic disorders with the hope that that it will improve their ability to mentally process information about space and time ... This research demonstrated dysfunctions in 'spatiotemporal cognition,' the ability to mentally process information about space and time....

"Our mentality has become more recognisable" (VfL Wolfsburg-Fußball GmbH)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Jun 2016
Plenty to be processed in an extensive interview with head-coach and Sporting Director of women's football, Ralf Kellermann ... Are you mentally still processing the previous season or already focused on the new season? ... Still in the old season, which we are still intensively processing ... In spite of that, in the final twenty minutes, plus extra-time, we showed the mentality that has characterised us in recent years....

Implicit Bias & Blind Spot (Andrews University)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Jun 2016
(Source. Andrews University). Implicit Bias & Blind Spot. 2016 Leadership Conference features Brian Nosek ... His main area of interest is in implicit cognition, which covers the mental processes that occur without conscious awareness or control ... By. Becky St. Clair ... His main area of interest is in implicit cognition, which covers the mental processes that occur without conscious awareness or control ... (noodl. 34184691) ....

Dr. Vanessa Snyder to Present at Courage Worldwide Training (Richmont Graduate University)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Jun 2016
(Source. Richmont Graduate University) ... The three mental health professionals will cover the manifold ways in which trauma neurologically reorders mental processes and behaviors ... Snyder ... Courage Worldwide reports that 100% of its constituents were drug-addicted and diagnosed with mental illnesses prior to treatment at a Courage House; after treatment, 78% of disorders were stabilized and 100% improved her GPA to over 3.0. 'Dr ... Dr ... (noodl....

Yoga becomes spearhead of India’s soft power push in southwest China

Edit The Hindu 20 Jun 2016
From a stage, an energised and profusely sweating Yoga master Zubin Zarthoshtimanesh, hollers into his microphone ... This was Ms. Tian’s second outing with Indian masters in Dujiangyan ... Ms ... Ms ... “Our job here is to explain the bio-mechanics of yoga; of the physiological and mental processes that are involved in asanas, so that greater awareness of the uniqueness of yoga is created among the students.” ... Keywords....

Miriam Margolyes: ‘People think I'm funny and fluffy but I can switch on a sixpence to utter despair'

Edit The Observer 19 Jun 2016
Confidence was the backbone of my upbringing. I was an only child, so I was spoilt, loved and given an enormous amount of confidence by my parents. Neither were confident themselves. my mother was uneducated and felt inferior. She was determined that I would go to university. She’d say, “I want you to be able to talk to anybody about anything” – and I can. There’s a strong melancholic streak in me ... It’s a sign of a sloppy mental process....

Why Do Our Minds Wander?

Edit National Public Radio 17 Jun 2016
Getty Images. Sometimes the mind wanders. Thoughts pop into consciousness ... We turn inward ... Ordinary people, it is widely supposed, are not very good at monitoring their own free and undirected mental processes. So how can a scientist gather information about what's going on in the mind of a subject so as to be able to look further at what neural events and processes are, as they say, recruited by those happenings? ... @alvanoe. ....

In MS, can better sleep improve cognition?

Edit Science Daily 14 Jun 2016
People with multiple sclerosis often have trouble with memory, attention and mental processing. New research shows some of these issues could stem from sleep disorders ... ....

Sharks stay loose, ready to battle for survival in Game 5

Edit Yahoo Daily News 08 Jun 2016
PITTSBURGH – So I asked Joel Ward. If I played a drinking game where I took a shot whenever scoring the first goal of Game 5 was mentioned in a San Jose Sharks’ team meeting, how drunk would I be right now? . “Depends on your tolerance, I guess.”. I informed him I’m part Irish ... It’s a matter of sticking with it, believing in it and knowing that the process can kick in at any moment,” said Ward.  ... A mental process to it ... --....

The mindful way to distract you from your cravings

Edit CNN 08 Jun 2016
(CNN)You know you've had that moment -- that sudden desire -- to eat something with no rational reason ... "This proved we can redirect mental processes with another task," says Hsu who highlights the importance of people choosing to do this themselves ... "Playing a visually interesting game like Tetris occupies the mental processes that support that imagery; it is hard to imagine something vividly and play Tetris at the same time." ... Photos....

Voters Don’t Seem to Care Whether Candidates Tell the Truth

Edit Newsweek 06 Jun 2016
I just don’t trust her ... Perhaps because Americans are increasingly overworked, stressed, checked-out or distracted by Facebook, they are relying on heuristics—mental shortcuts—to simplify the processing of information, wrote Yale University professor of psychology Dan Kahan in a July 2013 study on how voters think ... Mental processing known as “post-decision dissonance” also helps us feel more satisfied with the choices we’ve made ... ....

Can You Die From A Nightmare?

Edit Medium 06 Jun 2016
The Role Of Sleep And Dreaming In Our Emotional Lives, when researchers managed to image a 16-year-old sleepwalker’s brain activity, they found that the boy was “emotionally aroused and his body active, while at the same time the higher mental processes of judgment, rational thought, self-reflection, and memory were still asleep.” She concludes ......
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