Our eyes take in a lot of information from the world, but limitations in brain processing means that we can only pay attention to a small portion of it. As a consequence we often fail to notice important information that is clearly in our field of view because our attention is focused elsewhere. One compelling [...]
Tags: crash risk, DriveSharp, Driving, driving safety, UFOV, useful field of view
Posted August 30, 2010 by Peter Delahunt under Brain exercise, Brain plasticity, DriveSharp, Driving, Driving safety, Neuroscience, Processing speed, Research studies
Ed. note: Today we are pleased to present a guest post from Beth Tracton-Bishop, Ph.D, a gerontologist with The Hartford Advance 50 Team and an expert on aging and driver safety. Click on her name above for a full biography. Have you ever heard of the phrase “driving wellness”? It’s a relatively new term that takes [...]
Tags: Driving, driving safety, driving wellness, The Hartford
Posted July 22, 2010 by Beth Tracton-Bishop under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain exercise, DriveSharp, Driving, Driving safety, Posit Science software, Processing speed
Recently Dr. Jerri Edwards of the University of South Florida published a paper showing that older adults who cease driving have higher mortality rates.1 You might think this can be easily explained by the fact that unhealthy people are more likely to cease driving. However, Dr. Edwards used an analytical method to take into account [...]
Tags: depression, Driving, driving cessation, health care, isolation, jerri edwards, mortality
Posted February 4, 2010 by Peter Delahunt under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain exercise, DriveSharp, Driving, InSight, Neuroscience, Research studies
1:38 PM: That’s it for our live blog today- Peter Delahunt will start the live blogging tomorrow morning at 8 AM for Day 2 coverage. We hope you enjoyed the live blog and that you’ll be back tomorrow! 1:35 PM: Elkhonon Goldberg is the Chief Scientific Advisor to SharpBrains. He begins by discussing the role [...]
Tags: allstate, alvaro fernandez, bill reichman, brain fitness, cognifit, conference, david whitehouse, Driving, driving safety, Elizabeth Zelinski, elkhonon goldberg, IMPACT study, jerri edwards, Kunal Sarkar, Lumosity, marian diamond, murali doraiswamy, plasticity, science claims, sharpbrains, shlomo breznitz, summit, teen driving, tom warden
Posted January 18, 2010 by Karen Merzenich under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain exercise, Brain Fitness Marketing, Brain Fitness Program, Brain plasticity, DriveSharp, Driving, Driving safety, Exercise, InSight, Memory, Neuroscience, Posit Science software, Processing speed, Research studies
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