June 29, 2008 at 11:01 am
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Magic mushrooms and learning: a personal experience with Lion’s mane
Taking mushrooms is called “shrooming”. This is the second article I am writing on Lion’s mane as a smart drug.
I used this mushroom to try to increase cognative function after a brain lesion. The results were an improvement but I am not sure if it [...]
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August 14, 2007 at 7:04 am
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Increase your brain function
National Academy for child development has a page that talks about sequential processing and you can even take a test online. This gives you concrete way to increase your brain function. It is not abstract or fringe science. It is a way that you can increase your sequential processing and therefore [...]
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May 12, 2007 at 3:26 pm
· Filed under Brain and language learning, General language learning, Learn Russian, Off the topic of languages
Another entry for the ever-expanding category of “the brain is a very strange place” posts. A paper in PNAS suggests that what we call a color may influence how we perceive it. The image below shows a spectrum of colors that, to an English speaker, would probably all be described as “blue.” Russian speakers, however, [...]
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April 27, 2007 at 5:12 am
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Language exposure
What you need to learn a language is exposure to the language. You need to hear words and phrases over and over again. If you do not hear these words over and over again. How can your brain ever form the right connections? Think about a brain cell, it must make countless complex connections [...]
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