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Physical Activity Is Cognitive Candy
After stressing the importance of movement and play with regard to learning, in previous blogposts, I thought I’d share 5 minutes of video shot during a recent masterclass on Brain & Human Movement at Windesheim University in The Netherlands. About an hour into the lecture, at that critical point when people’s brains start to crash a Continue reading…
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Most of us love to read about how people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs dropped out of Harvard, how Lucille Ball was dismissed from drama school with a note that read: “Wasting her time, she is too shy to put her best foot forward.”, how the Beatles were turned down by record companies saying Continue reading…
The human brain needs 4 things to function: glucose, blood, oxygen and calcium. In other blogposts I have gone into how exercise gets these fabulous 4 to the brain. This time however, it’s time to take a closer look at what the brain needs to learn and today the focus will be on what it doesn’t Continue reading…
Our unique cognitive skills were forged in the furnace of physical activity (Medina, 2008). An average man would walk 12 to 20 kilometres a day. If we compare this to 2011 we would have to compare men to marathon or decathlon runners. This means that the development of our brain took place under conditions where Continue reading…
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"What enables us to innovate, problem-solve, and be happy, smart, resilient human beings? Our ability to PLAY" (Stuart Brown, 2009).
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