Когнитивные способности

Cognitive ability: How and why should we constantly train the brain?

The brain is a "muscle"

• Special attention was paid to the “pumping" of cognitive abilities after the first waves of the pandemic, when it turned out that coronavirus infection affects attention and memory, reduces mental activity and provokes Alzheimer's disease.

What is cognitive ability?

• Cognitive abilities are the brain's skills to absorb and process information about the world around us. They include memory, attention, cognitive flexibility, imagination, speech, the ability to think logically.

Attention

• Attention is the ability to concentrate on a task for a long time, even if there are distractions around or if you perform multiple tasks at the same time.

Memory

• Memory allows us to reproduce experiences and impressions experienced in the past, recall signs of objects and phenomena, poems, formulas, recipes, birthdays and other information that enters the brain.

Cognitive flexibility

• Cognitive flexibility allows you to adapt to new conditions, quickly change the strategy and look for alternative solutions to the problem

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Auditory and visual perception

• Auditory and visual processing allows you to interpret any information that you receive through images or sounds.

Information processing

• A person who needs more reading time, mathematical calculations, logical reasoning and decision making just does it longer, but no less qualitatively.

How cognitive abilities change

• The University of California set up an experiment - they offered elderly people to study Spanish, photography, drawing, music and iPad functions for 15 hours a week. In three months, age-old students improved short-term memory and mental flexibility to the level of 30-year-olds and younger participants in the experiment.

How to improve your cognitive abilities

• 1 . Be physically active
• 2. Get enough sleep
• 3. Reduce stress levels
• 4. Maintain and develop social connections
• 5. Play Mind Games