by Margie Meacham | Aug 15, 2017 | LearningToGo Blog
I recently heard a term that was new to me, “The Google Effect.” So of course, what did I do? I googled it. It turns out that there’s been quite a lot of research into the effects of online search on our brains and our apparent decline in the ability to...
by Margie Meacham | Aug 12, 2017 | LearningToGo Blog
If you look at Brain Matters: How to help anyone learn anything using neuroscience on Amazon, you’ll soon see a new design on the back cover, thanks to a truly wonderful endorsement from my colleague and friend, #1 Coach, Marshall Goldsmith. Dr. Goldsmith served as...
by Margie Meacham | Aug 1, 2017 | LearningToGo Blog
(Originally appeared in Trainingindustry.com magazine) Neuroscience is the convergence of multiple scientific disciplines applied to the study of how brains work. While very new as science goes, it’s been around as a term for at least 60 years, when biologist Ralph...
by Margie Meacham | Jul 24, 2017 | LearningToGo Blog
Perhaps one of the most unique characteristics of our species is our insatiable obsession with ourselves. Going back to the earliest examples of human cave art, we see evidence of our collective narcissism. Many of the figures in cave art depict food sources, like...
by Margie Meacham | Jul 23, 2017 | LearningToGo Blog
In a wonderful mash-up of gamification and crowdsourcing, the Mozak brainbuilder helps scientists at the University of Washington’s Center for Game Science by challenging gamers to connect the dots and identify the many dendrites coming from a single cell body. In the...
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