New daily brain exercises on blogSci.com

I’m very happy and proud to announce the newest feature on the Blog of Science: the Daily Mental Calisthenics. The Calisthenics are a set of mental exercises to help you keep your brain working. Use them to wake up, have a quick break, and most of all, have fun!

The Calisthenics are made of up of three parts:

• Three words of the day, kindly supplied by The Free Dictionary.
• A Stroop Effect brain teaser.
• An easy game of Sudoku.

The Stroop Effect is seen when the brain is given two conflicting stimuli. The examples the Calisthenics use are words and their colors. If you show someone a word which is a color, such as ‘brown’ or ‘white’, then the brain quickly tries to say the word ‘brown’ or ‘white’. Now, suppose you write the word in a different color, say the word ‘brown’ in red ink. If you now ask someone to say the color the word is written in, the brain gets "confused" and tries to say ‘brown’ instead of ‘red’. Wikipedia has more about the Stroop Effect.

The Calisthenics are truly a daily read: I custom-built them to automatically update for the next 1000 days, with each one being a unique set of games! Bookmark the page, make it your home page, whatever, but rest assured, it’ll be there every day for your pleasure!

Again, the link is: Daily Mental Calisthenics. Please post feedback below!

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