Friday, March 7th, 2008 01:20 pm
afternoon in the office
I've had a lot of coffee and my brain age is 29 (best is 20). Therefore, I think I am almost fit for human interaction.
Nintendo DS + Brain Age I = CRACK CRACK CRACK
Actually, part of it is this; relearning how to memorize and retain is actually fairly hard. I never have had any sort of decent memory (except SV fic; man, there was a period in my life I was doing a seventy something percentage recall; that fic where Clark ate a grape? INDEXED IN MY HEAD. Tentacle rape? KNOW ALL THREE. I am glad that period of time has passed.) Pattern recognition, however, is a lot easier.
And those speed math tests are really cracky, but also really focusing for some reason. I have no idea why, but doing one hundred simple problems at speed is extraordinarily mood-lifting.
Also, TETRIS dammit. I want. So. Much.
Nintendo DS + Brain Age I = CRACK CRACK CRACK
Actually, part of it is this; relearning how to memorize and retain is actually fairly hard. I never have had any sort of decent memory (except SV fic; man, there was a period in my life I was doing a seventy something percentage recall; that fic where Clark ate a grape? INDEXED IN MY HEAD. Tentacle rape? KNOW ALL THREE. I am glad that period of time has passed.) Pattern recognition, however, is a lot easier.
And those speed math tests are really cracky, but also really focusing for some reason. I have no idea why, but doing one hundred simple problems at speed is extraordinarily mood-lifting.
Also, TETRIS dammit. I want. So. Much.
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From:It's called metacognition. It improves with age. Little kids just don't know when they've memorized a list of words, whereas older kids know how to, and know when they've done it.
850 citations on google scholar. You'd best show respect. (http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ217109&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ217109)
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