Neuroscience

The Power of Your Non-Conscious Brain

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Your non-conscious brain is perceiving, learning, and making decisions for you all the time. But because all of this takes place on a subconscious level, you are generally unaware of the process. It’s an amazing part of your mind and yet, for the most part it seems to operate quite independently. By the way, your non-conscious brain (or mind) is the same thing as your subconscious mind. Neuroscientists prefer the term “non-conscious” because they feel that it does away with a lot of non-scientific baggage that is attached to the old term. For our purposes though, I will use the [...]

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Understanding the Role of Brain Waves

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In his book, Brain Wave Vibration: Getting Back into the Rhythm of a Happy, Healthy Life, Ilchi Lee introduces a simple training technique that has already transformed thousands of lives. Brain Wave Vibration is a powerful, easy-to-follow method that helps people bring their bodies and minds back into balance for total health, happiness, and peace. The simplest form of practice merely requires moving your body to your own internal rhythms. llchi Lee serves as president of the Korea Institute of Brain Science and the International Brain Education Association. He lives in Sedona, AZ, but spends much of his time traveling around [...]

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Increase Your Working Memory

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A while back I ran across a study of something called dual n-back memory training that was showing amazing results in increasing some kinds of working memory. What was exciting about this study was that something called transference was being demonstrated. Transference refers to the results of training on one type of task transferring to improvement in results on other types of tasks. Amazing claims were being made about the transfer effect of this type of training to improvements in fluid intelligence.

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