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Right-Handed and Left-Handed People Do Not See the Same Bright Side of Things

Posted February 11th, 2010 by parbuckle
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ScienceDaily (Feb. 2, 2010) — Despite the common association of "right" with life, correctness, positiveness and good things, and "left" with death, clumsiness, negativity and bad things, recent research shows that most left-handed people hold the opposite association. Thus, left-handers become an interesting case in which conceptual associations as a result of a sensory-motor experience, and conceptual associations that rely on linguistic and cultural norms, are contradictory.
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Meeting Architecture, a manifesto.

Posted March 7th, 2008 by maarten.vannest...
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Read Book review from Elling Hamso    Dr. Elling Hamso, Managing Partner, European Event ROI Institute

 MEETING ARCHITECTURE 

Sleep May Help Clear Brain For New Learning

Posted May 3rd, 2009 by maarten.vannest...
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ScienceDaily (Apr. 3, 2009) — A new theory about sleep's benefits for the brain gets a boost from fruit flies in the journal Science. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found evidence that sleep, already recognized as a promoter of long-term memories, also helps clear room in the brain for new learning.

How Does Alcohol Affect Memory? Study Offers New Insight

Posted April 25th, 2011 by parbuckle
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Drinking alcohol primes certain areas of our brain to learn and remember better, says a new study from the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research at The University of Texas at Austin. 

The Adolescent Brain: (Awkward) Window of Opportunity

Posted August 27th, 2012 by dominika.fudala
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(Psychology Today) With the onset of puberty, the beginning of adolescence is marked by pronounced hormonal changes in the human body. During this developmental period, increasing levels of growth hormones, gonadal steroids and adrenal androgens trigger a host of noticeable physiological changes that have become to be identified with pubertal maturation, such as the typical teenage growth spurts and amplified sexual dimorphism.

Food for thought by Andrea Sullivan from Brain Strength Systems and The National Conference Center Professionals

Posted August 11th, 2011 by mireia.iglesias
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Enhancing Meetings Through Food 
How can we increase the learning and the effectiveness in our meetings? 
"Meeting success is mainly impacted by meals served at breakfast and lunch." 

See how food, mind and body are connected in the following article: http://bit.ly/hcNftX 

Creating An Unforgettable Event: Unlocking Memory By Unleashing The Power Of Thinking

Posted July 25th, 2011 by mireia.iglesias
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You are what you eat. What you see is what you get.
These idioms are familiar to most of us.
Here’s a simple truth: What you think about is what you remember!
The implication for your conferences, events and meetings are substantial.

Our Memory Is Like A Video Recorder?

Emotions, Learning and Education

Posted April 22nd, 2010 by helena.davidsson_1
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Summary Report from an OECD-CER Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark

As there are 34 000 classified emotions, the question arises as to how are teachers supposed to recognize and deal with the emotional states of their students, when most of the time the students don’t even know what they are feeling themselves.....
Is it possible to develop a coherent framework for dealing with emotions that does not produce confusion?

Spending Time in Nature Makes People Feel More Alive

Posted June 6th, 2010 by parbuckle
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ScienceDaily (June 4, 2010) — Feeling sluggish? The solution may require getting outside the box -- that big brick-and-mortar box called a building.

Being outside in nature makes people feel more alive, finds a series of studies published in the June 2010 issue of the Journal of Environmental Psychology. And that sense of increased vitality exists above and beyond the energizing effects of physical activity and social interaction that are often associated with our forays into the natural world, the studies show.

How Music 'Moves' Us: Listeners' Brains Second-Guess the Composer

Posted January 25th, 2010 by parbuckle
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 ScienceDaily (Jan. 16, 2010) — Have you ever accidentally pulled your headphone socket out while listening to music? What happens when the music stops? Psychologists believe that our brains continuously predict what is going to happen next in a piece of music. So, when the music stops, your brain may still have expectations about what should happen next.

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