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Learn more on an empty stomach?

Posted September 14th, 2008 by maarten.vanneste
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Publication Date: 
2006
Researchers from the Yale School of Medicine discovered in 2006 that Gherline, a hormone secreted by an empty stomach not just triggers the hunger signal to the brain. In Mice (plural of mouse, nit as in MICE industry) that hormone also resulted in better learning and remembering.  This makes sense: when you are hungry, as an animal, you go look for food, and it is crucial that you are able to remember where there is food to e found. If you don’t, you die; natural selection. If you want to remember more form the sessions at a conference, you better attend on an empty stomach. 

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Richer bouquet with Jimmy Hendrix

Posted September 14th, 2008 by maarten.vanneste
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Put the record on when presenting someone a cabernet Sauvignon, Rock will do. The wine will be more robust and taste stronger than if presented with no music. The same wine will taste much milder when enjoyed with a romantic ballad.  Listening to music can influence the taste of wine. ‘Cognitive Priming’ lies at the base of this effect, according to researchers at the Heriot-Watt University of Edinburgh. Specific music stimulates specific areas in the brain and when the brain gets additional stimulation by the taste of the wine, both sensations, influence each other: the wine tastes differently.

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Building sleep reserves for that coming conference?

Posted September 14th, 2008 by maarten.vanneste
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Heavy conference ahead with early committee meetings and late night “networking” events? Try sleeping more than usual in the weeks prior to the conference.  Research by the American Sleep expert Tracy Rupp with 24 subjects makes her concludes that you can accumulate sleep for ‘use’ in periods of ‘scarcity’.Half of the test group had to be in bed 10 hours a night for a week and the other half 8 hours. After that week, they all got a 3 hours sleep regime for a week followed by a 8 hour a night five day catch-up period.What was the result?

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Professor Tim Jacob PhD

Posted May 18th, 2008 by maarten.vanneste
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Research Overview
The psychophysiology of smell: how we smell, why we smell and what differentiates different smell qualities. We are also investigating the function of smell as a signalling medium in humans (human pheromones).


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Patrick De Wit

Posted February 25th, 2008 by administrator
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Patrick De Wit is a clinical neurologist, interested in rehabilitation of people. Diseases of the brain are the most important reason for learning and attention disorders.
In his function as Medical Director he is involved in the daily issues about learning, teaching and networking between medical doctors in and outside the hospital.





Department Neurology    AZ Sint Jozef    Malle, Belgium

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Digital natives have different brain

Posted February 25th, 2008 by administrator
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The Digital native is anyone younger than 25 (in 2006) that was born in the digital age. The digital immigrants are the older generation that was not. Neuroscientists now say that there is a physical difference in the brains of these two categories.

Also: The Digital natives have CPA, Continues Partial Attention. Digital natives call, send text messages and pictures, play games, download music, and watch commercials all at the same time.  

 
 

Comment:

If there is really such a ting a CPA, how will we feed information to those participants at meetings and conferences? How will we keep their fragmented attention?


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Warm body keeps the head cool

Posted February 25th, 2008 by administrator
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Finnish research made a number of volunteers solve puzzles and tests at 10° Celsius during a few days. These volunteers did significantly worse that a control group at 25° Celsius. (20° Celsius is normal room temperature.) Conclusion, Cold has a negative impact on performance of the brain, because it distracts from the task at hand.
Comment:Good temperature and good air conditioning are crucial for learning at conferences. People having to put on a sweater during the conference are distracted by that fact and miss some of the content of that meeting. Architects have an even more important role in the results of conferences. INvesting in a perfect heating cooling system is crucial for conference centers and conference hotels.

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Sleeping improves memory

Posted February 25th, 2008 by administrator
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Publication Date: 
2007
More and more scientists are getting convinced sleep is not a waste of time.

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Microphone feedback is 2nd most annoying sound

Posted February 25th, 2008 by administrator
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26 January 2007 International visitors to the BadVibes web site (www.sound101.org) — a research project from the University of Salford — listened to sounds such as a dentist's drill, fingernails scraping down a blackboard and aircraft flying past, before rating them in terms of their unpleasantness. Although fingernails scraping down a blackboard is said to be the worst sound by many people, the actual recording of this sound only came 16th out of 34 sounds auditioned. Microphone feedback came a close second in the 'horribleness ranking', with many babies crying coming joint third with a horrible scrapping sound.

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Electricity consumption of the brain

Posted February 25th, 2008 by administrator
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Our brain uses as much energy as a 20watt light bulb. With that, only 1% of our brain cells are active simultaneously. The other 99% is used too, only not at the same time. That would be impossible; our brain already uses 20% of the oxygen we breath in, and it would get overheated.

Comment:When you have a meeting of   100 people, the total power consumption is 2000 watts. That is the maximum power you can connect to one power plug in the wall. Or as much as 10 LCD projectors. A meeting of 1.000 participants when put to work, imagine what you could do with 20.000 watts of electricity… The power of the brain, the  power of meetings.

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