#cognitive processing

[jbfly46]

The accumulation of seed oils in the body disrupts cognitive processing by cutting off oxygen to the brain, because your body is unable to fully break down seed oil, causing it to buildup in your veins, arteries, and other areas, making it harder for oxygen to reach your brain.

[art-of-mathematics]

Bayesian Optimization & Quantum Computing

How Bayesian Optimization can help Quantum Computing become a reality

Interesting... One of my approaches to correct my cognitive processing via metacognition are very similar... The concept I could finally map fairly detailled some weeks ago, and reading articles on Quantum Bayesian Optimization now. .. well, I see very similar patterns, even with incredible amount of detail considered in both realm...

Emergent properties of error-correction algorithms in non-linear dynamical information systems (as form of self-organization)... could explain the similarity between cognition's underlying non-linear processing patterns - and quantum computing/ quantum information flows / quantum logic in general.

[dinersaturn]

All celebrities look the same whether it be from surgery, nepotism or hiring preference. It’s becoming harder to tell people apart especially when it comes to people having facial blindness or processing disorders. This makes anime, where people look so wildly different it’s easy to tell them apart much more approachable and easy to follow but I feel like no one talks about that.

[thepotentialof2007]

Media usage diminishes memory for experiences

Here, we examine how experiences change when people are experimentally induced to not use media, use media to record their experiences, or use media to share their experiences with others. In each study, we assess memory using a performance measure of how well participants retain the details of an experience.

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Everyday moments are fleeting, but media allow us to hold onto these moments by saving them for ourselves and sharing them with others. These studies highlight ways in which using media impacts our personal experiences, both in the moment and in memory. Ironically, our results suggest that using media to preserve these moments may prevent people from fully experiencing them in the first place. These effects can be both substantial and sustained: media distract us from our experiences – limiting our ability to remember the moments we so wish to hold on to.

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2018.01.006

Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity

In two experiments, we test the hypothesis that the mere presence of one’s own smartphone reduces available cognitive capacity. We manipulate smartphone salience by asking participants to place their devices nearby and in sight (high salience, “desk” condition), nearby and out of sight (medium salience, “pocket/bag” condition), or in a separate room (low salience, “other room” condition).

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Consumers’ limited cognitive resources shape innumerable aspects of their daily lives, from their approaches to decisions to their enjoyment of experiences. Our data suggest that the mere presence of consumers’ own smartphones may further constrain their already limited cognitive capacity by taxing the attentional resources that reside at the core of both working memory capacity and fluid intelligence.

The specific cognitive capacity measures used in our experiments are associated with domain-general capabilities that support fundamental processes such as learning, logical reasoning, abstract thought, problem solving, and creativity. Because consumers’ smartphones are so frequently present, the mere presence effects observed in our experiments have the potential to influence consumer welfare across a wide range of contexts: when consumers work, shop, take classes, watch movies, dine with friends, attend concerts, play games, receive massages, read books, and more .

doi:10.1086/691462

[blissbytes]

Western science has just started exploring the vast dimensions of the effects and benefits of meditation that the inner scientists of the East have researched and lived for thousands of years

Western science has just started exploring the vast dimensions of the effects and benefits of meditation that the inner scientists of the East have researched and lived for thousands of years

Science is just now getting glimpses of the tremendous power of meditation to completely change the entire body-mind structure itself. The benefits of meditation are countless and across all planes – physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. Meditation can simply change the very quality of life.

Until recently, it was believed that in the brain, the connections among the brain nerve cells were…

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[businessrequiresa]

Do You Abrade Your Brain?

You can think of your brain in the twin way you think about your muscles. All the same it receives the fomentation it needs it can bring to fit and healthy for many years. Several years ago domain discovered, that for many of us, the exercise we got was not enough towards keep our bodies (and especially our hearts) as fit and in good health as they needed to be. Of scour at present any of us are aware that we duty against keep fit in order in consideration of nurture a healthy heart and body. Erst science has discovered the coequal is truth-loving of the brain.<\p>

In facet some studies have concluded there is a yoke between how we brace up the brain and levels on deliberative function later modernized life. There are discordant forms of mental stimulation that have displayed themselves to be fitting in improving and maintaining the brains performance. Fortunately many of them layout out to be good fun farther. They can include learning a new skill, monkeying around challenging games such since chess creamy cards bend just filling out a particularly taxing crossword puzzle. Even playing games on your electronic computer console chokey exercise your mental farewell performance.<\p>

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It has been demonstrated that brain speed, or cognitive processing, is vital in how well the brains inner essence, memory, problem solution and decision making functions operate. In fact how fast our brain processes information has been linked to our IQ and even our long-livedness. In his book Reynolds has devised full many be merry with games that can quickly drink a positive implication in reference to your brains processing abilities. This in reappear can predispose to faster thinking, tower over fix and concetration levels because completely as a tons improved ability to remember and recall information.<\p>

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In order to when your thinking feels a little fuzzy, chevron yourselves are struggling to remember facts that used to come to you easily, credit any which way how you are treating your brain. Are you giving it the stimulation she needs to hang out accompanying hierarchy as respects its game? Are yours truly feeding it the nutrients yourself needs to have the energy toward perform optimally. By irresistible the perpetually to give our brain a good workout, and eating a healthy diet from lots of decorous brain foods, we are giving ourselves the best chance to keep our cognitive funtions operating at their maximum level.<\p>

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[iamunwell]

Forgetfulness isn't cute. Forgetfulness means giving a birthday gift two weeks late. Forgetfulness means giving a birthday gift on time, but obviously last minute. Forgetfulness means being late to every social occasion. Forgetfulness means not replying on time to almost any of your messages. Forgetfulness means leaving other people's food out of the fridge. Forgetfulness means not doing the chores allocated to you. Forgetfulness means seeming rude, lazy and careless. Forgetfulness isn't cute.

Clumsiness isn't cute. Clumsiness means spilling gunk all over the floor. Clumsiness means breaking dishes when trying to wash them up. Clumsiness means needing to be taken to A&E on a regular basis. Clumsiness means skipping almost every dance class. Clumsiness means living in a mess because you drop things too often to pick them all up. Clumsiness means regularly being injured and in pain. Clumsiness means having to walk slowly in the dark. Clumsiness means being unable to multitask. Clumsiness isn't cute.

Shyness isn't cute. Shyness means being snapped at for mumbling all the time. Shyness means watching people ignore what you just said even though you tried really hard to speak loud enough. Shyness means cancelling on any social event without enough familiar people attending. Shyness means not being able to make casual conversation. Shyness means seeming standoffish, rude and disinterested. Shyness means seeming childish, incompetent and vulnerable. Shyness means not being able to tell the guy harassing you to go away. Shyness means not being able to ask for help when you need it. Shyness means not having many friends. Shyness isn't cute.

We feminise and fetishise incompetence, and I'm sick of it. It's not fun, quirky or adorable to have these problems. It's a way to make it okay to seek out someone who will be more easily dependent. It's a way to present vulnerable people as acceptable targets. These are frequently caused by disabilities, too; presenting them as cute personality quirks demeans and infantilises those who suffer from them - and we do suffer from them.

[solutionsondeck-blog]

Constructive and Unconstructive Repetitive Thought

From the academic journal Psychol Bull. 2008 Mar; 134(2): 163–206.

Abstract

The author reviews research showing that repetitive thought (RT) can have constructive or unconstructive consequences. The main unconstructive consequences of RT are (a) depression, (b) anxiety, and (c) difficulties in physical health. The main constructive consequences of RT are (a) recovery from upsetting and traumatic events, (b) adaptive preparation and anticipatory planning, (c) recovery from depression, and (d) uptake of health-promoting behaviors. Several potential principles accounting for these distinct consequences of RT are identified within this review: (a) the valence of thought content, (b) the intrapersonal and situational context in which RT occurs, and (c) the level of construal (abstract vs. concrete processing) adopted during RT. Of the existing models of RT, it is proposed that an elaborated version of the control theory account provides the best theoretical framework to account for its distinct consequences.