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MeditationAsMind-Exercise 11 - 28 Jan 2008 - Main.JustinColannino
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Our discussion on 'vegging-out' vs. meditation today reminded me of a google talk I watched recently on meditation and happiness.
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 Perhaps other brain functions can be enhanced as well.
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>		EDIT January 28th: The Atlantic has an article by Walter Kirn about the harms of multitasking. The article cites some studies on the effect of multi-tasking on memory which speak to this topic. The relevant portion:
 
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>		"The subjects’ brains coped with the additional task by shifting responsibility from the hippocampus—which stores and recalls information—to the striatum, which takes care of rote, repetitive activities. Thanks to this switch, the subjects managed to sort the cards just as well with the musical distraction—but they had a much harder time remembering what, exactly, they’d been sorting once the experiment was over. Even worse, certain studies find that multitasking boosts the level of stress-related hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline and wears down our systems through biochemical friction, prematurely aging us. In the short term, the confusion, fatigue, and chaos merely hamper our ability to focus and analyze, but in the long term, they may cause it to atrophy."

This is more evidence that excercising your brain is important to memory and focus. The UCLA paper is available here. An interview with one of the science paper's authors is here.

-- JustinColannino - 28 Jan 2008

 

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