Scans of the brains of child musicians before and after musical training have yielded compelling evidence that proficiency and skill relies on hard graft, not innate genius.
It has been found that like muscle, brain tissue can change with exercise.
Music Lessons Provide Brain Workouts
July 31, 2010 Leave a Comment
Do You Need Some Motivation – Try This
March 1, 2010 Leave a Comment
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Forgiveness- The Way To Peace and Health
January 4, 2009 Leave a Comment
Forgiveness is defined as the process of ceasing to feel resentment, indignation or anger for a perceived offense, difference or mistake, and ceasing to demand punishment or restitution.
Forgiveness may be considered simply in terms of the person who forgives, in terms of the person forgiven and/or in terms of the relationship between the forgiver and the person forgiven.
How To Manage Difficulties and Emerge Winner?
December 29, 2008 Leave a Comment
It is a challenge is to live a fulfilling, winning life. It is far easier to let yourself go along with flow of the times. But to get up and fulfill your dreams, it requires courage.
There is enough in life to feel anxious about. Your looks, quarreling parents, rebellious children, financial worries, serious illness. You need to be confident otherwise you may be overwhelmed with insecurity, frustration or apathy. [Read more...]
How Positive Mood Can help You?
December 20, 2008 Leave a Comment
Being positive helps. Positive moods can increase one’s ability to take good decisions. According to a recent study, a positive mood enhances efforts to attain future well-being, encourages broader and flexible thinking, and increases openness to information. the study has been conducted by the uiniversities of Georgia and Chicago.
The study has been published in Journal of Consumer Research.
The researchers presented identical statements to study participants in one experiment. The statements in each set were preceded by either a smiley face or a frowny face.
Simply associating a smiley with a statement resulted in the statement being construed at a higher, more abstract level.
During the follow-up studies, the research team induced positive and negative moods by asking participants to describe either the happiest or unhappiest days in their lives.
The participants were also asked to fill out three different questionnaires, with a view to determining the level of abstract versus concrete thinking. The researchers said that all three questionnaires showed that people in a good mood thought more abstractly.
According to them, being in a good mood allows people to step back emotionally.
Those in a positive mood not only adopt higher-order future goals and work harder toward attaining them, but also reduce their efforts when goals are proximal or concrete.
Dirty Surroundings May Provoke Bad Behaviour
December 6, 2008 Leave a Comment
An interesting study by Dutch researchers recently found that graffiti on the walls, trash in the street, bicycles chained to a fence resulted in a decline in how people behaved in a series of experiments. Actions ranging from littering to trespassing and minor stealing all increased when people saw evidence of others ignoring the rules of good behaviour.
Things like littering an area or applying graffiti change the circumstances by indicating that others are not behaving correctly, which weakens the incentive for people to do the right thing.
The researchers found a tidy alley in a shopping area where people parked their bicycles. There was a no-littering sign on the wall. Under normal circumstances, 33 percent of riders littered the alley with they flyer. But after researchers defaced the alley wall with graffiti, the share of riders who littered with the flyers jumped to 69 percent.
If public areas are neat people will be less likely to make a mess.
How Sleeping Boosts Creativity And Memory
December 5, 2008 1 Comment
If you get interrupted sleep,it can affect your memory. This has been suggested by a new research. In contrast, taking a nap may boost a sophisticated kind of memory that helps us see the big picture and get creative.
“Not only do we need to remember to sleep, but most certainly we sleep to remember.”
Scientists increasingly are focusing less on sleep duration and more on the quality of sleep. Particularly important is “slow wave sleep”, a period of very deep sleep that comes earlier than better-known REM sleep, or dreaming time.
Fishbein suspected a more active role for the slow-wave sleep that can emerge even in a power nap. It is possible that our brains keep working during that time to solve problems and come up with new ideas.
The research included 20 English-speaking college students who were given lists of Chinese words spelled with two characters-such as sister, mother, maid. Half the students took a nap, being monitored to be sure they didn’t move from slow-wave sleep into the REM stage.
Upon awakening, they took a multiple-choice test of Chinese words they’d never seen before. The nappers did much better at automatically learning.
Fragmented sleep, whether from aging or apnea can suppress cell birth in the hippocampus, where memory-making starts enough to hinder learning weeks after sleep returns to normal.
Rats with disturbed sleep could only randomly stumble upon an escape hole in a maze that their counterparts detected easily by using room cues.
Women Find Men With Facial Scars Sexy
November 28, 2008 Leave a Comment
Based on an extensive study of 220 people, researchers in Britain found that facial scars can help win a woman’s heart. Many women find Harrison Ford’s scar on his chin and Connery’s on his face as unique beauty marks that boosts the sex appeal of the two Hollywood celebrities.
The British study has suggested that scarring associated with violence may signal to a woman that the man has a risk-taking personality or above average masculinity, both of which might appeal to women for short term relationships.
Scars may indirectly be a sign of good genes or a strong immune system that also appeal to women for short-term relationships.
The study has been published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences. It also suggest that there is a difference among the scars the way they are perceived. A facial scar that looks like it was inflicted in anger rather than the after math of chickenpox or acne, increases men’s attractiveness. [Read more...]
Sweating Holds Key to Fate of Romance
November 27, 2008 Leave a Comment
When it comes to romance, it seems that sweat is all you need to determine the fate of the relationship.
A new study has suggested that if one perspires a lot while talking to a romantic partner, then that person may not be the right choice, the latest edition of Journal of Social and Personal Relationships reported. [Read more...]
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